Two Figures (related to the painting Tahitian Landscape)

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Prints and Drawings

1891/93

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Two Figures (related to the painting Tahitian Landscape)
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: Black chalk, with touches of watercolor and watercolor offset on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 35.2 × 36.9 cm (13 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1922.4794V
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Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 212.
Harold Joachim anf Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 60-61, cat. 3F1.
Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein, et. al., The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, exh. cat. (New York, 2002), p. 193, fig. 85b.
Anna Gruetzner Robins, “Manet and the Post-Impressionists’: a Checklist of Exhibits,” in The Burlington Magazine (London, 2010), vol. 152, no. 1293, p. 788.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 67, cat. 98; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 72.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 152-153, cat. 73.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 223-224, cat. 122 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Emily Crane Chadbourne, Chicago, by 1913 [New York 1913]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

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