About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manao Tupapau (fragment) (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)1894-95
Woodcut on end-grain boxwood, printed in black on cream Japanese paper
229 x 157 mm (image); 232 x 188 mm (sheet)
Not signed
The Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection, 1946.435
Kornfeld 29 I/IV, a; Guérin 36 I (undescribed)/III; Schniewind 24 IA/III
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), pp. 134, no. 29.
Ownership History
William Molard [Kornfeld 1988]. Henri Petiet (French, 1894-1980), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Jean Goriany, New York, to the Art Institute, 1946.