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Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite by Paul Gauguin — VisualArtsDB

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

1893–1894

Medium: Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, over a yellow, silver-gray and brownish-orange ink tone block, and transferred yellow, green, red, and orange oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove card
Dimensions: Image: 20.2 × 35.6 cm (8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 20.4 × 35.6 cm (8 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: woodcut
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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