About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Bathers in Brittany, plate four from The Volpini Suite, 1889

Zincograph printed in black on yellow wove paper
233 x 197 mm (image); 499 x 649 mm (sheet)
Signed lower left, on stone: "P Gauguin"
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1943.1030

Kornfeld 4 only state, A.b; Guérin 3 first edition

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 73, cat. 81.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 130.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58c (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. 137, cat. 71 (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. 22, no. 4.

Ownership History

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