About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Grasshoppers and Ants: A Memory of Martinique, plate five from The Volpini Suite, 1889

Zincograph in black on yellow wove paper
211 x 263 mm (image); 498 x 648 mm (sheet)
Signed lower left, on stone, in image "Paul Gauguin"
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1943.1022

Kornfeld 5 A.b.; Guérin 10 first edition

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 137.

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

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, p. 142, cat. 76 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 24, no. 5.

Ownership History

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