About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by Pola Gauguin (Danish, born France, 1883-1961)
published by Chr. Cato, Copenhagen

Mahana Atua (The Day of God), 1894-95, printed and published 1921

Woodcut on boxwood printed in black on light gray chine
182 x 203 mm (image); 267 x 429 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in plate "P G O"; inscribed lower left, in margin, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait"; inscribed lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp"
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1924.1195

Kornfeld 31 II/II, C.b; Guérin 42 only

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.