Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her)

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Prints and Drawings

1894/95

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her)
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.: 1894–1895
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink with brush and stencil-applied red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and brown watercolors on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions: Image: 22.7 × 52.2 cm (8 15/16 × 20 9/16 in.); Sheet: 23.2 × 57.2 cm (9 3/16 × 22 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: John H. Wrenn Fund
Reference Number: 1946.341
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Ronald Alley, Gauguin (London, 1961), p. 18 (ill.).
Jean Leymarie, Gauguin: Aquarelles, pastels et dessins (Geneva, 1988), p. 32 (ill.).
Jean Leymarie, Gauguin: Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings (New York, 1989), p. 32 (ill.).
Denise Delouche, Gauguin: et la Bretagne (Rennes, France, 1996), pp. 123-124 (ill.).

New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 23, cat. 89.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Survey of the Woodcut,” January 22–April 6, 1958.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 85, cat. 164; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 347, cat. 186 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 260, 264, 265, cat. 211, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), Highlands, New Jersey; by descent to his son, Richard Hartshorne (1900-1958), New Jersey; Sold by Parke-Bernet to Mr. Julius Wills, as the agent for Richard Zinser (1885-1983), New York, January 23, 1946, lot 91; Sold by Richard Zinser to the Art Institute, 1946.

Kornfeld 29 III/IV

Guérin 36 I

Schniewind 23 II/II

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