About This Artwork
Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), from Noa Noa1893-94, printed and published 1921
Woodcut on boxwood printed in black on light gray chine
205 x 355 mm (image); 268 x 430 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"; inscribed lower left, in margin, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait"; lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp."
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1924.1198
Kornfeld 20 IV/IV F.b; Guérin 91 III/III
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Vero Beach, Fla., Center for the Arts, "Under Pressure: A Survey of the History of Printmaking from the 15th Century to the Present," September 23-November 12, 1989; traveled to the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss., January 7-February 18, 1990; and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tenn., March 22-April 22, 1990.
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 11, 1992-May 8, 1993.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 43 and 52, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Publication History
Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 94 and 110, no. 22b (ill.).
Ownership History
Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.