Human Miseries, from the Volpini Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1889

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Human Miseries, from the Volpini 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.: 1889
Medium: Zincograph in reddish-brown on chrome yellow wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, in plate, lower right, in image, in reddish-brown printing ink: "P Gauguin / 89 [in reverse]"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "43.1028 / R8013"
Dimensions: Image: 28.4 × 23.4 cm (11 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Plate: 29.3 × 23.5 cm (11 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 65 cm (19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1943.1028
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Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 80, cat. 132.
Henri Dorra, “Gauguin’s Dramatic Arles Themes,” Art Journal 38, no. 1 (Autumn 1978), p. 14, fig. 5.
Henri Dorra, “Van Gogh and Cloisonism,” Art Journal 41, no. 3 (Autumn 1981), pp. 259–60, fig. 11.
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov,Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981), p. 197, cat. 58e (ill.).
Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988),pp. 131, 135, cat. 69 (ill.).
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. 36, cat. 11.
Jay A. Clarke, Becoming Edvard Munch, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 128, 130–31, 225, fig. 136, cat. 105.
Anne Leonard, The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700–1900 (Smart Museum of Art/University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 27–28, fig. 17.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 132.
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, “Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism,” January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58e (ill.), cat. by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov; traveled to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Vogh, Amsterdam, April 9-June 14, 1981.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 135, cat. 69 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth”, February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 128, 130-131, fig. 136, cat. by Jay A. Clarke
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 15, 178, 180, cat. 107, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al.

Sold by Hellmuth Wallach (1901–1989), New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Guérin 5 first edition

Kornfeld 11 A.b.

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