About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Human Misery1898-99
Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
193 x 296 mm (image); 288 x 305 mm (sheet)
Inscribed lower left, in ink: "Imp. no. 16"
Gift of Frank B. Hubachek, 1947.436
Kornfeld 49 only; Guérin 69 only
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. 88, cat. 183; 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," p. 443, cat. 244 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
Ownership History
Marcel Guérin (1873-1948), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Kleeman Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.