This woodcut belongs to Paul Gauguin's "Noa Noa" suite, a series of prints he created after returning to Paris from his first stay in Tahiti, intended to accompany his own semi-fictionalized travel memoir of the same name. "L'univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created)" reflects Gauguin's fascination with Polynesian cosmology and creation myth, rendered in a boldly carved, primitivist woodcut technique that abandoned fine European engraving conventions in favor of raw, direct mark-making. The Noa Noa woodcuts are considered among the most radical and influential prints of the late nineteenth century.
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