About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)1893-94
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
180 x 271 mm (image); 423 x 594 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed upper left, on stone, in image: "P G O"
Gift of Jeffrey Shedd, 1975.1042
Kornfeld 23 only, C; Guérin 50
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Graphic Tours: Travel and 19th French Works on Paper," January 14-April 17, 1994.
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 118 and 120, no. 23.
Ownership History
Given by Jeffrey Shedd to the Art Institute, 1975.