About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Auti Te Pape (Women at the River), from Noa Noa, 1893-94

Woodcut printed from one block in orange and black ink respectively, over yellow, pink, orange, blue and green wax-based media on laminated cream Japanese paper
203 x 353 mm (image/sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"; inscribed verso, in brown ink: "PG 15 mars," (changed from: "10 mars")
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.264

Kornfeld 16 II/II, B; Guérin 35 I/II

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 85, cat. 161; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.

Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan Museum of Art, "The Artisitic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1850-1900," November 4, 1983-January 8, 1984, p. 116, cat. 66 (ill.), cat. by Jacquelynn Bass and Richard S. Field; traveled to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Conn., February 1-March 25, 1984, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 17-June 3, 1984.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 322, cat. 167 (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," 2003-2004, pp. 121, 124, and 354, cat. 111b (ill.), cat. by George T. M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Thory; shown only in Boston, February 29-June 20, 2004.

Publication History

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 135 (ill.).

Dario Gamboni, Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (London, 2002), p. 93, no. 68 (ill.).

Ownership History

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