About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Headpiece for "Le Sourire" (Fox, Busts of Two Women and a Rabbit) (not used in regular edition)1899-1900
Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
112 x 185 mm (image); 145 x 227 mm (sheet)
Signed lower left, in image, in ink: "PG 20"
Frank B. Hubachek Collection, 1948.18
Kornfeld 69 III/III, A; Guérin 76 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), pp. 244 and 246, no. 69.
Ownership History
Sold by William H. Schab, New York, to the Art Institute, 1948.