Chez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things)

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Prints and Drawings

1893

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Chez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1893
Medium: Watercolor, with traces of black crayon and graphite, on tapa, partially laid down on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, upper right corner, in brush and gouache: "PGO/91/92/93"
Dimensions: Closed: 32.8 × 26.5 cm (12 15/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Open: 32.8 × 53 cm (12 15/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henri M. Petiet
Reference Number: 2015.408
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Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 20, 37, 50, cat. 10 (ill.).
Ronald Pickvance, Gauguin, exh. cat. (Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1998), p. 284.

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 20, 37, and 50, cat. 10 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 16, 235, 239, 281n12, cat. 178, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Sold at the public auction of the artist’s belongings following his death, Papeete, Tahiti, Sept. 2, 1903, lot 125, probably to Mr. Pietri, Papeete. Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 20, 1941, lot 17bis. Henri M. Petiet (French, 1894–1980), Paris, by Jan. 25, 1956; by descent to the Petiet family, 1980; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 2015.

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