Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques, Paul Gauguin, 1889

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Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques, 1889, Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition, 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. ( x cm), Prints, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), On the fairgrounds of the Paris World's Fair of 1889, at Volpini's Café des Arts, Gauguin exhibited a brand new suite of ten zincographs printed on bright yellow paper. Known as the 'Volpini Suite,' the prints served as a pictorial souvenir of Gauguin's recent travels in Brittany, Martinique, and Arles

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