About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Three People, a Mask, a Fox and a Bird)1899
Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
89 x 182 mm (image); 92 x 185 mm (sheet)
Inscribed lower left, in ink: "P G"; in ink: "18"
Gift of Frank B. Hubachek, 1946.33
Kornfeld 58 only, B; Guérin 75 only/first
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 222, no. 58.
Ownership History
Jean Goriany, New York, August 1938. Given by Frank Hubachek, Chicago, 1946.