Title:
("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)
Series/Portfolio:
Dessins lithographiques: suite of ten lithographs on zinc, sometimes called "the Volpini Suite" because they were shown " sur demande" "dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars" during the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (probably beginning June 10, the opening at Volpini's of L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste"
Artist:
Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)
Date:
1889
Medium:
Zincograph, colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio, trimmed)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.9 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1922
Object Number:
22.82.2(1)