About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Buddha, 1898/99

Woodcut on long grain plank, printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
293 x 222 mm (image); 303 x 228 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed upper left, in plate: "P G"; inscribed upper left, in plate, in ink: "1"
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund, 1947.687

Kornfeld 45 only, B; Guérin 63 only

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. 177; 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. 438, cat. 234 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 46 and 54, cat. 30 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

Dallas Museum of Art, "The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso," February 1-May 7, 2000, p. 131 (ill.), cat. 134; traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2, 1999-January 4, 2000.

Publication History

Jean-Yves Tréhin, Gauguin, Tahiti et le photographie (Paris, 2003), p. 40 (ill.).

Jacquelynn Bass, Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art, from Monet to Today (Berkeley, Calif., 2005), p. 36 (ill.)

Ownership History

Marcel Guérin (1873-1948), France [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.