Auti te pape (Women at the River), from the Noa Noa Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Auti te pape (Women at the River), from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 1893–1894
Medium: Wood-block print, printed in reddish-brown and black ink on ivory wove paper (previously mounted on mottled blue wove paper laid down on cream wove card [a presentation mount])
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: 204 × 348 mm (image); 207 × 348 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
Reference Number: 1954.1191

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 70, no. 16.
Peter Kort Zegers, “In the Kitchen with Paul Gauguin: Devising Recipes for a Symbolist Graphic Aesthetic,” in The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper (London, 2002), pp. 140-141, fig. 3.6, edited by Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen.

New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 23, cat. 88.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 85, cat. 160; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 327, cat. 167a; shown only at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Intimate Encounters: Paul Gaugiun and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection,” September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 16, 31, 35, 188, 196, 208, 211, cat. 141, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al.

Sold by Gerald Cramer, Geneva, to the Art Institute, 1954.

Guérin 35 before I/II

Kornfeld 16 I/II

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