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L'Univers est créé (The Universe is Created),
1893–94
Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903; born Paris, France; died Atuona, Marquesas Islands
2005-116
Information
Title
L'Univers est créé (The Universe is Created)
Dates
1893–94
Maker
Medium
Woodcut printed in black on thin rose-colored wove paper
Dimensions
block (sheet trimmed to block): 20.7 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
2005-116
Place Made
Europe, France, Paris
Inscription
Titled in block, lower left: L'Univers est Créé
Initialed in block, lower right: PGO
Reference Numbers
Guérin 26; Mongan and Kornfeld 18
Materials
Techniques
Subject
- Marcel Guérin, L'oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (Paris: H. Floury, 1927)., no. 26
- Elizabeth Mongan, Paul Gauguin: catalogue raisonné of his prints (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988)., no. 18
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2005," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 65 (2006): p. 49-81., pp. 79–80 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), illustrated p. 343
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 396
