About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Tahitians, Flowers, and Leaves) (not used in a regular edition), 1899-1900

Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
103 x 182 mm (image); 118 x 209 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1951.36

Kornfeld 70 only; Guérin 77 only

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. 248-249, no. 70 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sold by Robert G. Michel, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1951.