Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

Prints and Drawings

1893/94, printed and published in 1921

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

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 1893–1894
Medium: 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

Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 93 and 110, no. 21a (ill.).
Henri Dorra, Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity: The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin (California, 2005), p. 170-71 and 337, fig. 78 (ill.).

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