Volpini Suite: The Grasshoppers and the Ants (Les Cigales et les Fourmis)

1889

Inspired by La Fontaine's fable, this zincograph transforms the classic moral tale into Gauguin's distinctive visual language of simplified forms and symbolic meaning.

Medium: zincograph

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Paul Gauguin, Volpini Suite: The Grasshoppers and the Ants (Les Cigales et les Fourmis), 1889

Inspired by La Fontaine's fable, this zincograph transforms the classic moral tale into Gauguin's distinctive visual language of simplified forms and symbolic meaning.

Medium: zincograph
Year: 1889
Seen at: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums