Woodcut print with red and orange flame-like forms, two seated figures at left and right, and a dark diagonal shape across a brown field.

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), Noa Noa Suite

A woodcut print in dark brown and red tones shows two seated figures at left and right, one with a pale yellow-green ground above. Flame-like red and orange forms rise through the center, and a swirling dark diagonal shape cuts across the scene. The inscribed title Mahna no varua ino appears in the lower left.

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, with brush and pale orange wash, over stenciled yellow ink and a red ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1089 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1894).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Marjorie Kreilick McNab

19th century post-impressionism woodcut print 1890s 1894 printmaking flames seated figure gauguin noa noa suite mahna no varua ino tahitian subject red and black