Maruru (Offering to the Gods) / Paul Gauguin

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Accession Number: 1949/1.178
Title: Maruru (Offering to the Gods)
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Artist Nationality: French
Artist Life Dates: 1848 - 1903
Medium and Support: woodcut on paper
Object Creation Date: 1894
Object Creation Place: Europe (continent); France (nation)
Creation Place 1: Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2: France (nation)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Inscription: Signed: P G O
Dimensions: 25.4 cm x 40.64 cm (10 in. x 16 in.)
Century: 19th century
Primary Object Classification: Print
Physical Description: Landscape scene with three figures (two standing and one kneeling) near a large sculpture of a God with a figure on horseback in the distance. Image consists of sharply cut and defined elements.
Primary Keywords: figures (representations); figures in landscape; gods; kneeling; religions; religions and religious concepts
Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; associated concepts; figures; mythology; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by state or condition; religious concepts; visual works; visual works by subject type
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1415 x 823
File Size: 319 KB
Record: 1949/1.178
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1949-sl-1.178/1949_1.178.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Thurman, w17 - Global Cultural Encounters (8); A - Occult in western art - a study room selection #1 (20); Art for postcolonial critique (40); Art from Oceania (35); European primitivisms (54); European primitivisms - a study room selection (24); German Primitivism - a study room selection #1 (18); Global cultural encounters - a study room selection #1 (14); History of Art 393 paper study visit (20); Occult mysticism in Western art (63); Paris, capital of the 19th century - a study room selection (30); Postcolonial studies - a study room selection (21); Stamps School BFA Preview Woodcuts (21)

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Full citation: "Maruru (Offering to the Gods); Paul Gauguin." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1949-sl-1.178/1949_1.178.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.