About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
"Le Sourire, Journal Sérieux," October 13, 1899 Issue1899
One-page leaflet with woodcut title and monogram printed in black and hand-written text and illustration reproduced in mimeograph, on cream wove paper
373 x 258 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed upper right, page 1: "P G"; signed upper right, page 1: "Paul Gauguin"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1948.423
Kornfeld 56, 57 only; Guérin not included
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), pp. 218 and 220, no. 56 and 57.
Ownership History
Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.