About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

A Fisherman Drinking Beside His Canoe, 1894

Woodcut, printed in black and hand-colored in red, orange, pink, yellow and slate gray on ivory Japanese paper
206 x 140 mm (image/sheet)
Not signed
Kate S. Buckingham Fund #1 income, 1971.785

Kornfeld 33 II/II; Guérin 46 II; Mongan, Gauguin 30 I/II

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. 148, no. 33.

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 100 and 111, no. 28 (ill.).

Ownership History

Henri Petiet (189-1980), Paris [Kornfeld]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris [Kornfeld]. Sold by Robert Light to the Art Institute, 1971.