About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)1894-95
Woodcut printed in black (block slipped during printing) and hand-colored in watercolors with the aid of stencils on ivory Japanese paper
219 x 528 mm (image/sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.265
Kornfeld 29 II/IV; Guérin 36; Schniewind 24 I/III
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), p. 134 no. 29.
Ownership History
Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Walter Geiser, Basel, to the Art Institute, 1948.