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A work made of wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory china paper.

L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin · 1893–94, printed and published 1921

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Palette

Pale stone
 33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.8:1
Charcoal
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Iron
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Chalk
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.5:1
Stone
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Paul Gauguin
printed by Pola Gauguin (Danish, born France, 1883-1961)
Date
1893–94, printed and published 1921
Type
Print
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Size
Image: 20.5 × 35.5 cm (8 1/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 26.9 × 42.6 cm (10 5/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 59, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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