About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

"Le Sourire, Journal Sérieux," November 1899 Issue, 1899

Two-page leaflet with woodcut head-piece and title printed in black, and hand-written text reproduced by mimeograph, on cream wove paper
395 x 255 mm (sheet)
Signed top of page 4: "Paul Gauguin"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1948.421

Kornfeld 57, 60B only, B; Guérin not included

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. 226, no. 60.

Ownership History

Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.