About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

"Le Sourire, Journal Sérieux," September 19, 1899 Issue, 1899

Two-page leaflet with woodcut title and monogram printed in black and hand-written text and illustration, on cream wove paper
349 x 260 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed top of page 4: "P G"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1948.422

Kornfeld 56, 57 only; Guérin not included

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, pp. 88-89, cat. 184; 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. 218 and 220, nos. 56 and 57.

Ownership History

Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.