About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), from Noa Noa, 1893-94

Woodcut on boxwood printed in black on thin light brown wove paper
204 x 356 mm (image); 207 x 357 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.256

Kornfeld 20 III/IV; Guérin 19 II/III; Schniewind 16 III/IVd

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. 146; 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," May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 326, cat. 176 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 96, no. 20.

Ownership History

Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Walter Geiser, Basel, to the Art Institute, 1948.