Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Inscriptions
Monogrammed in image: "P G O"; inscribed lower left, in graphite: "Paul Gauguin fait"; lower right, in graphite: "Pola Gauguin imp."
Dimensions
203 × 354 mm (image); 267 × 420 mm (sheet)
Credit Line
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number
1924.1196
Extended information about this artwork
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Shadow and Substance: The Shadow Theater of Montmartre and Modern Art, exh. cat. (Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1956), n.pag.
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. 22 (ill.).
Britt Salvesen, Gauguin, in association with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 2001), pp. 93, 110, no. 21a (ill.).
Henri Dorra, The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity (University of California Press, 2005), pp. 170 71, 337, fig. 78 (ill.).
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Shadow and Substance: The Shadow Theater of Montmartre and Modern Art, Mar. 3–Apr. 1, 1956, n.pag., no cat. no.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 42 and 52, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Sold by Thomas W. Schreiner, New York, to the Art Institute, 1924.
Guérin 95 only
Kornfeld 19 IV/IV E
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![A work made of wood-block print, printed in reddish-brown and black ink on ivory wove paper (previously mounted on mottled blue wove paper laid down on cream wove card [a presentation mount]).](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6599f48d-bcf6-56d4-667e-4b31d79b1760/full/25,/0/default.jpg)
