About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Heads of Tahitian Women, Frontal and Profile Views, 1891/93

Charcoal, selectively stumped and worked with brush and water, fixed, on ivory wove paper
414 x 326 mm
Gift of David Adler and his friends, 1956.1215R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Six Masters of Post-Impressionism," April 8-May 8, 1948, cat. 22.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 71, cat. 114; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 224-225, cat. 123 (ill.); traveled to 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. 38 and 50, cat. 11 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Paul Gauguin - Tahiti," February 7-June 2, 1998, pp. 32 and 166, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al..

Publication History

John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 35, no. 95 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 62, no. 3F4.

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 84 and 108, no. 12 (ill.).

Ownership History

Vollard Estate, from 1939 [Joachim 1979]; W. Walter [Joachim 1979]; sold to James Lord, Paris, from 1947 [letter from James Lord of September 25, 1960, in curatorial file]. John L. Senior, Jr. [Chicago 1959]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.