About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Dramas of the Sea: Descent into the Maelstrom, plate three from The Volpini Suite, 1889

Zincograph in black on canary yellow wove paper
175 x 286 mm (image); 500 x 650 mm (sheet)
Inscribed lower left, on stone: "Les drames de la mer P Gauguin"
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1943.1024

Kornfeld 3 only, A; Fonds Français 4; Guérin 8 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. 135.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58h (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. 140, cat. 74 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South," September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002, pp. 276-277 and 407, cat. 90, fig. 25.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 20, no. 3.

Ownership History

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