About This Artwork
Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Three People, a Mask, a Fox, and a Bird)1899, printed and published 1921
Woodcut printed in black on light gray chine
101 x 183 mm (image); 266.5 x 426 mm (sheet)
Signed lower left, in image: "P. Gauguin,"; lower left, in margin, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait," lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp.,"
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1924.1194
Kornfeld 58 only, D.b; Guérin 75 only
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Ownership History
Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.