About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Leda, cover for The Volpini Suite, 1889

Zincograph in black with hand-coloring on canary yellow wove paper
500 x 650 mm (sheet)
Inscribed upper right, on stone, in reverse: "homis [sic] soit qui mal y pense. PGO"; lower center, on stone: "projet d'asiet [sic] en 89"; lower center, in brown ink: "Dessins Lithographiques/ Paul Gauguin"
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1943.1021a

Kornfeld 1 only, A.a; Fonds Français 10; Guérin 1 first edition

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Gauguin," April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 22, cat. 77.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 128.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58a (ill.), cat. by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov; traveled to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Vogh, Amsterdam, April 9-June 14, 1981.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 14 and 16, cat. 1.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2001), pp. 276-277 and 407, cat. 90, fig. 24.

Ownership History

Sold by Dr. H. Wallach, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.