Te atua (The God), from the Noa Noa Suite

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Te atua (The God), 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: Wood-block print in residual brown and black inks on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: Image: 20.2 × 34.6 cm (8 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 20.6 × 34.6 cm (8 1/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number: 1940.1074
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Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 30 (ill.).
Musée du Luxembourg, Gauguin: Sculpteur et graveur, exh. cat. (Musée du Luxembourg, 1928), p. 12, cat. 67.
Raymond Cogniat, La vie ardente de Paul Gauguin, with a preface by Henri Focillon, exh. cat. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1936), p. 91, cat. 152a.
Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 71, cat. 68.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 76, cat. 17.
Dorothy M. Kosinksi, The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso, exh. cat. (Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press), p. 131, cat. 130 (ill.).
Dario Gamboni, Paul Gauguin: The Mysterious Centre of Thought, trans. Chris Miller (Reaktion, 2014), pp. 240–41, fig. 134.

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 12, cat. 67.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, La Vie Ardente de Paul Gauguin, 1936, p. 91, cat. 152a.
Brooklyn Museum, “Complete Graphic Works & Some Paintings by Gauguin,” June 18-September 18, 1938, no exh cat.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Paul Gauguin,” April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 71, cat. 68.
Dallas, Tex., Dallas Museum of Art, “The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso,” February 1-May 7, 2000, p. 131, cat. 130 (ill.); traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2, 1999-January 4, 2000.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 31, 40, 41, 44n6, 58, 63n11, 235, 236, 238, 247-49, 270, cat. 188, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Marcel Guérin (French, 1873-1948) [Kornfeld 1988]. Henri M. Petiet (French, 1894-1980) by 1936 [Paris 1936]. Sold by Jean Goriany, New York, to the Art Institute, 1940.

Guérin 30 I/III

Schniewind 20 I/IVb

Kornfeld 17 I/III

Cat. 53.2 Te atua (The God), 1893/94

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