Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?])

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Prints and Drawings

1891/93

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Crouching Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?])
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.: 1891–1893
Medium: Pastel over charcoal, selectively stumped, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), squared in black chalk on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)
Dimensions: 55.5 × 48 cm (21 7/8 × 18 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1944.578R
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Cologne, Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Aachener Tor, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler zu Cöln, May 25–Sept. 30, 1912, cat. 164a, as Tahitanermädchen.
Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings Old and New, 1946, cat. 20, pl. 25, as Tahitian Woman.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d’oeuvres des collections américaines, 1955, cat. 73, pl. 75, as Tahitienne.
Art Institute of Chicago, French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, Oct. 13–Nov. 27, 1955, cat. 165, as Tahitian Woman; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 2–29, 1955; Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 7–Feb. 11, 1956; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mar. 7–Apr. 10, 1956.
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Alphonse Kann (1868-1948) Paris [Flint 1931]. Joseph Stransky (died 1936), New York by May 1931 [Flint 1931]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.

Cat. 46 Crouching Tahitian Woman (recto), Seated Tahitian Woman (verso), 1891/93

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