# Head of a Tahitian Woman, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin drew this in 1891, aged 43. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This drawing belongs to a group of highly finished portrait drawings of Tahitians made by Paul Gauguin shortly after his arrival in the South Seas.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1891
- Medium: graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30.5 x 24.4 cm (12 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1949.439
- 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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