# Woman with a Cat, in Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin painted this in about 1900, aged 52. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Gauguin developed this unusual technique in Tahiti around 1899: he inked a sheet, laid paper over it and drew on the back with pencil, so that the pressure transferred a soft, grainy line onto the underside, which became the finished image.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1900
- Medium: Transfer drawing in brownish-black ink (recto); graphite and blue crayon pencil with brush and solvent washes in ocher on cream wove paper
- Dimensions: 46.5 × 61.5 cm (18 5/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.217
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Gauguin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-gauguin), French, 1848–1903

Gauguin worked as a Paris stockbroker and collected the Impressionists before taking up painting full time in the 1880s, showing in the last five Impressionist exhibitions.

10 works in the collection.

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