Dramas of the Sea (A Descent into the Maelstrom) (Les drames de la mer (Une descente dans le maelstrom)) from the series Volpini
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), 1889
zincograph in black, coloured by hand with watercolour, on yellow wove paper, 31.7 cm x 48.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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- Object number
- p2438V2004
- Dimensions
- 31.7 cm x 48.5 cm, 19.5 cm x 29 cm, 18 cm x 27.6 cm
- Catalogue raisonné
- Guérin 8,Mongan & Kornfeld & Joachim 3
- printmaker
- Paul Gauguin
- printer
- Imprimerie Edward Ancourt
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- signature
- P Gauguin
- inscription
- Les drames de la mer by Gauguin, Paul
- number
- MG8
- mark
- by Petiet, Henri Marie , Lugt no. 2021a
- inscription
- as. 9 b
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