Human Miseries, from the Volpini Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1889

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Human Miseries, from the Volpini Suite
Origin: France
Date: 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: 284 × 234 mm (image); 293 × 235 mm (plate); 498 × 650 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1943.1028

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.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 36, cat. 11.
Anne Leonard, The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900 (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 2011), fig. 17, p. 27-28.

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.

Cat. 21 Human Miseries, 1889

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