Art, literature & history
L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite
1893–94
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Wood-block print, printed in black ink with traces of residual brown ink, with selective wiping, over solvent-thinned and transferred and stenciled yellow, orange, red, blue, and green oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with touches of brush and black ink, on medium-weight, smooth, pink wove paper (faded to tan)
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 20.3 × 35 cm (8 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.259
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite — Paul Gauguin. 1893–94.
Medium: Wood-block print, printed in black ink with traces of residual brown ink, with selective wiping, over solvent-thinned and transferred and stenciled yellow, orange, red, blue, and green oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with touches of brush and black ink, on medium-weight, smooth, pink wove paper (faded to tan). Dimensions: Image/sheet: 20.3 × 35 cm (8 × 13 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.