About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by Louis Roy (French, 1862-1907)

Te Atua (The Gods), from Noa Noa, 1893-94

Woodcut printed from endgrain boxwood, in black over brick red on buff Japanese paper
204 x 353 mm (image); 249 x 397 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund, 1943.527

Kornfeld 17 III/III, D; Guérin 31 III/III; Schniewind 20 IVa/IVb (imp. 5)

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 41 and 51, cat. 17 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 76, 78, and 80, no. 17.

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 91 and 109, no. 19a (ill.).

Ownership History

Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris [inscription on verso in graphite]. Sold by David Keppel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.