Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1898/99

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
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.: 1898–1899
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on white Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left, in ink: "Imp. no. 16"
Dimensions: Image: 19.3 × 29.8 cm (7 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Primary support: 22.7 × 30.4 cm (8 15/16 × 12 in.); Secondary support: 22.7 × 30.4 cm (8 15/16 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
Reference Number: 1947.436
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 69 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Milan, 1997), p. 235 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 88, cat. 183; 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,” p. 443, cat. 244 (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. 17, 178, 182, 183, cat 110, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Marcel Guérin (1873-1948), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Kleemann Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, October 21, 1947 [acc. to Kleemann invoice].

Guérin 69 only

Kornfeld 49 only

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