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Te atua (The God) from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in yellow ocher and black inks, over yellow ink tone block, and transferred golden-yellow, green, red-orange, and red oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), on cream Japanese paper · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, over a yellow, silver-gray and brownish-orange ink tone block, and transferred yellow, green, red, and orange oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove card · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Auti te pape (Women at the River), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in pale orange and black ink, over transferred yellow, pink, orange, blue and green oil-based media, with traces of conifer resin (probably pine resin), on cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove Japanese paper · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Maruru (Offerings of Gratitude), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping of the brown, and hand-applied green, blue, two yellows, and pink watercolor on ivory wove Japanese paper laid down on cream laid Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist) · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in black and brown inks, with selective wiping, and hand-applied orange, yellow, red, two tones of green, two tones of blue, silver-gray and black watercolor, on cream wove Japanese paper laid down on cream laid Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist) · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Te po (The Night) from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping, and hand-applied red, two tones of orange, yellow, two tones of blue, silver-gray, and black watercolor, on cream laid Japanese paper laid down on cream wove Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist) · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print in black ink, over traces of brown ink, with hand-applied blue, light blue, several greens, pink, orange, pale-orange, yellow, pale-red, and dark-gray watercolor, on ivory Japanese paper · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print in black ink, with touches of reddish-brown watercolor and black ink, over yellow ink tone block and transferred golden-yellow, orange, and green oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), on cream Japanese paper, laid down on heavy cream wove card · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago

Te faruru (Here We Make Love), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin
Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping, and a transferred twill impression, on cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on cream laid Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist) · 1893
Art Institute of Chicago
Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries
Edward Burne-Jones
black and blue crayons with graphite on light to medium-weight Japanese paper · 1893
Cleveland Museum of Art

Mademoiselle Ellen Helleu
Paul Helleu
Red chalk and black chalk, with incising, heightened with white pastel and white pastel mixed with red chalk, on cream wove Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Mademoiselle Ellen Helleu
César
Red chalk and black chalk, with incising, heightened with white pastel and white pastel mixed with red chalk, on cream wove Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, after Whistler
Thomas Robert Way
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé) · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Mademoiselle Ellen Helleu
Paul César Helleu
Red chalk and black chalk, with incising, heightened with white pastel and white pastel mixed with red chalk, on cream wove Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna)
Odilon Redon
Etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Canal in Venice
Gustave Leheutre
Drypoint and plate tone on buff simulated Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Marble Bridge, Copenhagen
Albany E. Howarth
Mezzotint in black on cream laid Japanese paper · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, after Whistler
Robert Thomas
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé) · 1892
Art Institute of Chicago

Quietude
Mary Cassatt
drypoint on Japanese paper · 1891
National Gallery of Art

Abraham Lincoln
Gustav Kruell
Wood engraving on thin Japanese paper · 1891
Art Institute of Chicago

La Danseuse: A Study of the Nude
James McNeill Whistler
Transfer lithograph in black on cream Japanese paper · 1891
Art Institute of Chicago

Draped Figure, Standing
James McNeill Whistler
Transfer lithograph in black on cream Japanese gampi paper hinged at top margin to cream laid Japanese paper · 1891
Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child, No. 4
James McNeill Whistler
Transfer lithograph in black on cream Japanese paper · 1891
Art Institute of Chicago

An Interior
James McNeill Whistler
Transfer lithograph in black on cream Japanese paper · 1891
Art Institute of Chicago