About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Dramas of the Sea, Brittany, plate two from the Volpini Suite, 1889

Zincograph in black on yellow wove paper
167 x 226 mm (image); 498 x 649 mm (sheet)
Signed lower left, on stone: "89 Paul Gauguin" (9 is reversed); lower center, on stone: "Les drames de la mer Bretagne"
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1943.1026

Kornfeld 2 only A.b; Fonds Français 5; Guérin 7 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. 134.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58g (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. 139, cat. 73 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 34 and 49, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

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. 26.

Publication History

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), p. 18, no. 2 (ill.).

Ownership History

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