About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Mahana Atua (The Day of God)1894-95
Woodcut printed in black and touched with watercolor in blue, crimson and orange on Japanese paper
181 x 202 mm (image); 184 x 205 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "PGO"; inscribed lower right, in plate: "Mahana Atua"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.267
Kornfeld 31 I/II; Guérin 42; Schniewind 27 I/IIb
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, pp. 85 and 87, cat. 167; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Publication History
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 142-43, no. 31 (ill.).
The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Washington D.C., 1988), p. 364 (ill.).
Ownership History
Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Walter Geiser, Basel, to the Art Institute, 1948.