Te po (The Night), from the Noa Noa Suite

Prints and Drawings

1893–94, printed and published 1921

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed by Pola Gauguin (Danish, born France, 1883-1961)
published by Christian Cato, Copenhagen

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Te po (The Night), from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 1893–1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed upper 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."
Dimensions: 204 × 358 mm (image); 266 × 425 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number: 1924.1199
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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. 40, 51, cat. 16 (ill.).
Britt Salvesen, Gauguin, in association with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 2001), pp. 61, 90, 109, no. 18b (ill.).
Martine Regnault, Paul Gauguin: La trace écrite (Éds. Universitaires de Dijon, 2005), p. 65 (ill.).

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 40 and 51, cat. 16 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.

Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.

Guérin 89 II/II

Kornfeld 21 IV/IV D.b

Cat. 52.2 Te po (The Night), 1893/94, printed and published 1921

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