About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by Georges Daniel de Monfreid (French 1856-1929)

Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), 1894-95

Woodcut printed in black on cream Japanese paper
173 x 127 mm (image); 250 x 178 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Gift of Carl O. Schniewind, 1948.394

Kornfeld 30.3 only, A.b; Guérin 40

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 138-40, no. 30.

Ownership History

Given by Carl O. Schniewind, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.