Mahana atua (Day of the God), woodcut by Paul Gauguin
A black-ink woodcut shows a tropical landscape with small figures standing and reclining beside a large spreading tree and dark water. Bold, irregular carved lines describe the foliage, ground and a strange creature at lower left, on pale grayish China paper with pencil inscriptions below.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1894/95, printed and published 1921
- Medium
- Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1084 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1921).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection