About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
A Fisherman Drinking Beside His Canoe, 1894
Woodcut printed in two colors from the same block in two different states, the first state in brown, the second in black, on cream Japanese tissue mounted on heavy Japanese paper
204 x 139 mm (image/sheet)
Not signed
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund, 1947.688
Kornfeld 33 I and II/II; Guérin 46 I and 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. 87, cat. 170; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 148-49, no. 33.
Ownership History
Marcel Guérin (1873-1948), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.