About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Fox, Busts of Two Women, and a Rabbit) (not used in a regular edition), 1899-1900

Woodcut printed in black on cream wove paper
104 x 184 mm (image); 114 x 195 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1951.35

Kornfeld 69 I/III; Guérin 76; Schniewind 58 I/II

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. 244-245, no. 69 (ill.).

Ownership History

Victor Segalen (1878-1919), France. Sold by Robert G. Michel, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1951.