About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Head of a Tahitian with Profile of Second Head to His Right, 1891/92

Black and red chalk, selectively stumped and fixed on buff wove paper
352 x 369 mm
Inscribed lower left, in graphite: "Hauteur"
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.4794R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, 69th Regiment Armory, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," February 17–March 15, 1913, p. 26, cat. 177.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," March 24-April 16, 1913, cat. 140.

Boston, Copley Hall, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," April 28-May 19, 1913, cat. 57.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition," June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 875.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 68, cat. 49.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Gauguin," April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 20, cat. 62.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 67, cat. 98; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959.

Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Paul Gauguin," April 1-May 29, 1960, p. 20, cat. 108, pl. 65.

Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, "Paul Gauguin," June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 42, cat. 55, pl. 27.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 116.

Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972.

Palm Beach, Fl., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 19.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 72 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 152-153, cat. 73 (ill.).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 223-224, cat. 122 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Paul Gauguin - Tahiti," February 7-June 2, 1998, pp. 32-33 and 167, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al..

Publication History

Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1919), p. 49 (ill.).

Robert Rey, Gauguin (New York, 1924), pl. 19.

Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Paris, 1930), p. 216 (ill.).

John Rewald, Gauguin (New York, 1938), p. 154 (ill.).

R. Huyghe and P. Jaccottet, Le Dessin français au XIXe Siècle (Lausanne, 1948), p. 116 (ill.).

Regina Schoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 212, pl. 119.

John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 36, no. 92 (ill.).

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Utica, NY, 1963), p. 190, no. 177.

Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin (London, 1970), p. 34, pl. 69.

Harold Joachim anf Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 60, cat. 3E12.

Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (Washington D.C., 1988), p. 268, no. 177.

Christie's, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part I (New York, November 10, 1987), p. 62 (ill.).

Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein, et. al., The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, exh. cat. (New York, 2002), pp. 154 and 193, figs. 59 85a.

Ownership History

Emily Crane Chadbourne, Chicago, by 1913 [New York 1913]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.