About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Bust of a Nude Woman and Three-Quarter Figure of a Man with a White Cap in Profile, Third Small Figure at Far Right) (not used in a regular edition)1899-1900
Woodcut printed in black on cream wove paper
103 x 182 mm (image); 118 x 257 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed center left, in image: "P G"
Gift of Mr. Cornelius Crane, 1946.425
Kornfeld 68 only; Guérin 73 only
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. 242 no. 68.
Ownership History
Dr. Victor Segalen (1878-1919) [initials on verso in graphite]; Mme. Segalen. Dr. Rabinovitch [according to Mme. Segalen]. M. Mordvinoff; sold to Cornelius Crane; given to the Art Institute, 1946.