About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Crouching Tahitian Woman: Study for "Nafea Faaipoipo (When Will you Marry?)", 1892

Pastel and charcoal, over preliminary drawing in charcoal, selectively stumped, and squared with black chalk, on tan wove paper
555 x 480 mm
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1944.578R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French Pastels and Drawings from Clouet to Degas," 1944, p. 7.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 15, cat. 20, pl. XXV, cat. by Carl Schniewind.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Gauguin in Tahiti," 1950.

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, cat. 73, pl. 75.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, pp. 68-69, cat. 105 traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 115.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 37 (ill.).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 265-266, cat. 146 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988, and the Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1988.

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 39 and 51, cat. 13 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Paul Gauguin - Tahiti," February 7-June 2, 1998, pp. 70-71 and 169, cat. 49 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al..

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Publication History

Ralph Flint, "The Private Collection of Josef Stransky," Art News 29 (May 16, 1931), pp. 86 and 101 (ill.).

John Rewald, Gauguin (New York, 1938), p. 157 (ill.).

Julio E. Payró, Paul Gauguin (Buenos Aires, 1943), fig. 7.

The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 40: 3 (March 1946), pp. 26-30 (ill. on cover).

Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 308-309, no. 154 (ill.).

Klaus Berger, Französische Zeichnungen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Basel, 1949), p. 30, no. 53 (ill.).

Klaus Berger, French Master Drawings of the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1950), no. 53.

Regina Schoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 214 (ill.).

John Rewald, Post Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin (New York, 1956), p. 500 (ill.).

John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 29, no. 47 (ill.).

Carl Georg Heise, Grosse Zeichner des XIX Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1959), p. 179, no. 146 (ill.).

Jean Leymarie, Paul Gauguin, Watercolours, Pastels and Drawings in Colour (London, 1960), no. 24 (ill.).

Ira Moskowitz (ed.), Great Drawings of All Time 3 (New York, 1962), no. 827 (ill.).

Harold Joachim anf Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 59, no. 3E9.

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 86 and 108, no. 14 (ill.).

Ownership History

Alphonse Kann, Paris [Flint 1931]. Joseph Stransky, New York by May 1931 [Flint 1931]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.