About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), from Noa Noa1893-94
Woodcut on boxwood printed in black, brown and gray in three printings from same block, touched with Chinese white, on ivory Japanese paper
204 x 357 mm (image); 207 x 359 mm (sheet)
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1954.7
Kornfeld 20 III/IV; Guérin 19 II/III
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
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. 96, no. 20.
Ownership History
Sold by Gerald Cramer, Geneva, to the Art Institute, 1954.