About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)1894-95
Woodcut printed in black and colored by hand in yellow, green, violet, brown and red, partly through the use of stencils, on cream Japanese paper
227 x 520 mm (image)
Not signed
John H. Wrenn Fund, 1946.341
Kornfeld 29 III/IV; Guérin 36 I; Schniewind 23 II/II
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. 85, cat. 164; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, p. 347, cat. 186 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
Ownership History
Robert Hartshorne, New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, January 23, 1946, lot 91. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1946.