Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite
Place
France (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Inscriptions
Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"; inscribed lower left, in margin, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait"; lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp."
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Center for the Arts, Under Pressure: A Survey of the History of Printmaking from the 15th Century to the Present, exh. cat. (Center for the Arts, 1989), p. 34, no cat. no.
Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 43, 52, cat. 25 (ill.).
Britt Salvesen, Gauguin, in association with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 2001), pp. 94, 110, no. 22b (ill.).
Vero Beach, FL, Center for the Arts, “Under Pressure, Western Printmaking from the 15th Century to the Present,” September 23–November 12, 1989, p. 34; also traveled to Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, January 7–February 18, 1990; Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, March 11–April 22, 1990.
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 11, 1992-May 8, 1993.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 43 and 52, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.
Guérin 91 III/III
Kornfeld 20 IV/IV F.b
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