Portrait of Tehamana

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Prints and Drawings

1891/93

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Portrait of Tehamana
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.: 1891–1893
Medium: Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, selectively fixedr
Dimensions: 41.3 × 32.5 cm (16 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David Adler and his friends
Reference Number: 1956.1215V
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 62, no. 3F4 3F5.
Yann le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin (Paris, 1986), pp. 154, 261 (ill.).
Yann le Pichon, Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration (New York, 1987), pp. 154, 262, fig. 287.
René Huyghe, Gauguin (New York, 1988), p. 77 (ill.).
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1990), n.p., fig. 99.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (New York, 1992), n.p., fig. 99.
Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 84 and 108, no. 12 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Carl O. Schniewind: Memorial Exhibition,” January 22–March 3, 1958, cat. 11.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 38 and 50, cat. 11 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, “Paul Gauguin - Tahiti,” February 7-June 2, 1998, pp. 32 and 166, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al.

Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris; Vollard estate, from 1939; to Wladimir Walter, Quatre Chemins, Paris; sold to James Lord (1922–2009), Paris, from 1947 [all early provenance is according to a letter from James Lord of Sept. 25, 1960 in curatorial file]. John L. Senior, Jr. [Chicago 1959]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

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