About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
"Le Sourire, Journal Sérieux," November 1899 Issue, 1899
Two-page leaflet with woodcut head-piece, title and monogram printed in black, and hand-written text and illustrations reproduced in mimeograph, on cream wove paper
397 x 255 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed top of page 1: "P G"; signed top of page 4: "Paul Gauguin"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1948.420
Kornfeld 56, 57, 58 only; Guérin 75
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 222, no. 58.
Ownership History
Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.