About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Head piece for "Le Sourire" (A Horse and Birds)1899
Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue, remargined with white Japanese paper along bottom
139 x 221 mm (image); 150 x 228 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "P G"; inscribed lower left, in ink: "no/13"
Gift of Frank B. Hubachek, 1946.32
Kornfeld 61 only, C; Guérin 74 only
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 89, cat. 186; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 228-229, no. 31 (ill.).
Ownership History
Jean Goriany, New York, July 1939. Given by Frank Hubachek, Chicago, 1946.