Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), 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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Art Center in La Jolla (Calif.), Post Impressionists, exh. cat. (Art Center in La Jolla, 1955), n.pag., cat. 44.
Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), p. 338, cat. 172n.
Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 42, 52, cat. 21 (ill.).
Britt Salvesen, Gauguin, in association with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 2001), pp. 92, 109, no. 20b (ill.).
Étienne Germe, Segalen, l’ecriture, le nom, Architecture d’un secret (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2001), p. 113 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific; The Edward McCormick Blair Collection, exhibition brochure (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), hors. cat.
Marie Gispert, ed., La critique d’art au mercure de France (1890-1914) (Éds. Rue d’Ulm, 2003), n.pag. (ill.).
Chicago, The Renaissance Society, “Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints,” July 2-August 16, 1931.
Art Center in La Jolla (Calif.), Post Impressionists, Aug. 7–Sept. 25, 1955, cat. 44.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 338, cat. 172n (ill.).; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 42 and 52, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection,” September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004.
Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.
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