About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
"Le Sourire, Journal méchant," February 1900 Issue1900
Two-page leaflet with woodcut head-piece printed in black and text and illustration reproduced by mimeograph, on cream wove paper
377 x 257 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "P G"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1948.418
Kornfeld 63 only, B; Guérin 79
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, pp. 88-89, cat. 185; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 232, no. 63.
Ownership History
Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.