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

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin · 1893/94, printed and published in 1921

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Palette

Graphite
 32% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1
Oyster
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Iron
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Pewter
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Chalk
 9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.1:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

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 in 1921
Type
Print
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Size
Image: 20.3 × 35.4 cm (8 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 42 cm (10 9/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 55, colourfulness 5

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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