Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite
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.: 1893–1894
Medium: End-grain boxwood block, with a commercially prepared gray ground, sealed with an opaque pink oil medium, and inked in black ink
Inscriptions: Engraved on verso: KIESSLING / J. Lacraia, Suc / PARIS; written in pink on the side: "LONDRES"
Dimensions: 20.4 × 35.3 × 2.3 cm (8 1/16 × 13 15/16 × 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hilliard Fund; Meg and Mark Hausberg Fund; Mr. and Mrs. T. Stanton Amour Fund; Art and Peggy Wood Fund; Marjorie and Frank Brookes Hubachek Memorial Fund; Print and Drawing Fund; Julius Lewis Fund; Mary S. Adams Fund
Reference Number: 2015.359
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Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 19.
Musée du Luxembourg, Gauguin: Sculpteur et graveur, exh. cat. (Musée du Luxembourg, 1928), p. 13, cat. 100.
Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, exh. cat. (G. van Dorssen, 1930), p. 48, no. 182.
“Gauguin Woodcuts,” special issue, Art Digest 8, no. 10 (Feb. 15, 1939), p. 25.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), pp. 96, 103, cat. 20.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 260, 264, 265, cat. 209, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.
National Gallery of Australia, “The World of Gauguin”, exhibited in Houston, TX, Musuem of Fine Arts, November 3, 2024 - February 16, 2025.

Guérin 19

Kornfeld 20

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