About This Artwork

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by T. F. Simon (Czech, 1877-1942)

Head piece for "Le Sourire" (Two Women Chattering), 1899-1900, printed after 1911

Woodcut printed in black on ivory Japanese tissue
102 x 148 mm (image); 150 x 228 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1951.38

Kornfeld 62 only, C; Guérin 81 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. 230-231, no. 62 (ill.).

Ownership History

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