Tahitian Carrying Bananas, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

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Prints and Drawings

1898/99

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Tahitian Carrying Bananas, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
Origin: France
Date: 1898–1899
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in pen and ink: "P.G. 1"
Dimensions: 162 × 285 mm (image); 211 × 304 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1954.1192
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1990), n.p., fig. 95.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Rizzoli, 1992), n.p., fig. 95.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 88, cat. 178; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, “Paul Gauguin,” April 1-May 29, 1960, p. 36, cat. 197.
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, “Paul Gauguin,” June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 46, cat. 100.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988-1989, p. 440, cat. 238 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

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

Guérin 64 undescribed first state

Kornfeld 46 I/II

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