About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Tahitian Woman ) (not used in a regular edition), 1899-1900

Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese paper
103 x 185 mm (image); 119 x 200 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1951.37

Kornfeld 72 only; Guérin 80 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), p. 252, no. 72.

Ownership History

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