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Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

The Creation of the Universe, from Noa Noa, 1893-94

Woodcut on boxwood printed in blended shades of black and brown and touched with watercolor in pink, orange, green, blue and yellow on cream Japanese paper
203 x 353 mm (image); 205 x 356 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower right, in image: "P G O"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.260

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 84, cat. 152; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.

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