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

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1894

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
printed in collaboration with Louis Roy (French, 1862-1907)

Status: Currently Off View
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.: 1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, over a stenciled dark-red-ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: Image: 20.6 × 35.7 cm (8 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 39.7 cm (9 3/4 × 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
Reference Number: 1943.527
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Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 31.
Frederick Keppel & Co., Prints by the Masters of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Frederick Keppel & Co., 1932), cover (ill.), cat. 22.
Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat, exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 71, cat. 69.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 31.
Frederick Keppel & Co., Prints by the Masters of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Frederick Keppel & Co., 1932), cover (ill.), cat. 22.
Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat, exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 71, cat. 69.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue

New York, Frederick Keppel & Co. “Prints by the Masters of Modern Art,” February-March, 1932, cover (ill). and p. 42, cat. 22.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Paul Gauguin,” April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 71, cat. 69.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 41 and 51, cat. 17 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Highland Park, Ill., Community Associates Group, Recreation Center, Print Show, May 13–20, 1960, no cat.
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. 192, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris [inscription on verso in graphite]. Sold by David Keppel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.

Kornfeld 17 III/III, D

Guérin 31 III/III

Schniewind 20 IVa/IVb (imp. 5)

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