Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent), 1894-95
Woodcut printed in black, with hand-coloring in orange, flesh tints, light green, dark green, violet and blue on cream parchment paper
145 x 119 mm (image); 147 x 120 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.270
Kornfeld 34 I/III; Guérin 47 only; Schniewind 30 I/III
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, p. 87, cat. 171; 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. 150-51, no. 34 (ill.).
Ownership History
Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Walter Geiser, Basel, to the Art Institute, 1948.