About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Head Piece for "Le Sourire" (Monkey--Caricature of Governor Gallet) (not used in a regular edition), 1899-1900

Woodcut printed in black on cream wove paper, above drawing in watercolor and pen and blue ink, with pen and black ink and touches of black crayon. Sheet laid down on cream board
296 x 204 mm (image/sheet)
Signed lower left, in black crayon: "P. Gauguin"; inscribed center right, in black crayon: "Marlbrough s'en va t en guerre"; in blue ink: "Mironton Mirontaine"; lower right, in black crayon: "Joli joujou"
Gift of Walter S. Brewster, 1949.605

Kornfeld 73 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, p. 89, cat. 188; 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), p. 254, no. 73.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Chicago, probably from September 30, 1930 [according to the inventory of the Brewster collection in the curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1949.