Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Nov. 1899

Prints and Drawings

1899

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Nov. 1899
Origin: France
Date: 1899
Medium: Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed top of page 1: "P G"; signed top of page 4: "Paul Gauguin"
Dimensions: 397 × 513 mm (full sheet); 397 × 256 mm (folded sheet); 32 mm (diameter of printed monogram); 24 × 94 mm (title block); 105 × 187 mm (headpiece)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1948.420

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 222, no. 58.
Belinda Thompson, ed., Gauguin: Maker of Myth, (London, 2010), exh. cat., pp. 193, 202, fig. 135.

Sold by Maurice Gobin, Paris, to Mr. Carter H. Harrison, June 25, 1948. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1948.

Guérin 75

Kornfeld 56, 57, 58 only