About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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

Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper
169 x 121 mm (image/sheet)
Not signed
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club, 1950.109

Kornfeld 30.3 only, A.a; Guérin 40 only; Schniewind 25 I

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Basel, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Basel, "Paul Gauguin," November 26, 1949-January 29, 1950, p. 51, cat. 89.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 85, cat. 165; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art,"The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, p. 348, cat, 189 (ill.); shown only at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1989.

Publication History

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 138 and 140, no. 30.

Ownership History

Sold by Gerald Cramer, Geneva, to the Art Institute, 1950.