Oviri

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1894

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Oviri
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
Medium: Wood-block print, printed twice in deep-yellow ocher and brown ink, with touches of black watercolor, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum), mounted on mottled blue wove laminate card (recto); wood-block print in black ink over red ink tone block, and brush and solvent-thinned orange wash, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum) mounted on mottled blue wove laminate card (verso)
Inscriptions: Inscribed on the mount, in ink: "à/ Stéphane/ Mallarmé/ cette étrange figure cruelle énigme. P. Gauguin 1895"
Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 11.9 cm (8 1/8 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 12.1 cm (8 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 23 × 31.6 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
Reference Number: 1947.686.2
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 48.
Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), no. 48.
Gauguin: la Bibliothèque des Expositions (Paris, 1988), p. 71, fig. 44.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1990), n.p., fig. 89.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (New York, 1992), n.p., fig. 89.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Milan, 1997), pp. 202-203.
Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 96 and 110, no. 24 (ill.).
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Paul Gauguin (Tokyo, 2009), p. 68, fig. 19-1.
Claire Frèches-Thory, Gauguin à Tahiti (Paris, 2003), n.p. (ill.).
Elise Eckermann, “En Lutte Contre une Puissance Formidable”: Paul Gauguin im Spannungsfeld von Kunstkritik und Kunstmarkt (Weimar, 2003), pp. 177, 325, fig. 71.
Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, Gauguin, Van Gogh: L’avventura del colore nuovo (Brescia, 2005), exh. cat., pp. 260, 263 (ill.).
Tobia Bezzola and Elizabeth Prelinger, Paul Gauguin: The Prints (Zürich, 2012), exh. cat., pp. 95, 98.
Dario Gamboni, Paul Gauguin: au “centre mystérieux de la pensée” (Dijon, 2013), pp. 261, 263, fig. 138.

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 12, cat. 78.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 87, cat. 172; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, “Paul Gauguin,” April 1-May 29, 1960, p. 35, cat. 193.
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, “Paul Gauguin,” June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 46, cat. 96.
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, “The Earthly Chimera and the Femme Fatale: Fear of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art,” May 20-June 21, 1981, p. 23, cat. 8.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,”May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 374-76, cat. 213 (ill.); traveled to 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. 31, 32, 40-41, 270, 275, cat. 220, 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 Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.

Guérin 48 only

Kornfeld 35 only

Cat. 84.4 Oviri, 1894

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