About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

L'univers est créé (The Creation of the Universe), from Noa Noa, 1893-94

Woodcut on boxwood printed in black over blue and brown in two printings, red and blue oil color added by hand, on cream Japanese paper
203 x 350 mm (image/sheet)
Monogrammed lower right, in image: "P G O"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.259

Kornfeld 18 II/II, B; Guérin 26 II/II; Schniewind 19 IIa/IIc

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 325, cat. 174 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection," September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Paris, Grand Palais, "Gauguin Tahiti," 2003-2204, pp. 121 and 354, cat. 114b (ill.), cat. by George T. M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Thory; shown only in Boston, February 29-June 20, 2004.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 82, no. 18.

Ownership History

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