Buddha, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

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Prints and Drawings

1898/99

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Buddha, 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 perimeter mounted on white Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed upper left, in block: "P G"; inscribed upper left, in block, in black ink: "1"
Dimensions: Image: 29.7 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.); Primary support: 30.4 × 22.7 cm (12 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 40.5 × 32.9 cm (16 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
Reference Number: 1947.687
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 63 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Ziva Amishai-Maisels, “Gauguin’s Early Tahitian Idols,” Art Bulletin, 60;2 (June 1978), pp. 339-340 (ill.).
Douglas W. Druick and Peter Zegers, “Le kampong et la pagode Gauguin à l’exposition universelle de 1889,” Gauguin: Actes du colloque Gauguin (Paris, 1991), pp. 121, 123, fig. 12c.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Milan, 1997), p. 231 (ill.).
Jean-Yves Tréhin, Gauguin, Tahiti et le photographie (Paris, 2003), p. 40 (ill.).
Gerda Theuns-de Boer, “The Distribution of Van Kinsbergen’s Oeuvre: Decorative Albums, Engravings, and World Exhibitions,” Isidore van Kinsbergen (1821-1905): Photo Pioneer and Theatre Maker in the Dutch East Indies (Amsterdam, 2005), pp. 139-140 (ill.).
Jacquelynn Bass, Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art, from Monet to Today (Berkeley, Calif., 2005), p. 36 (ill.)
Suzanne Greub, ed., Gauguin: Polynesia (Munich, 2011), exh. cat. pp. 314-315, fig. 312.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 88, cat. 177; 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. 36, cat. 196, pl. 87 (ill.).
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, “Paul Gauguin,” June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 46, cat. 99, pl. 31.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 438, cat. 234 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 46 and 54, cat. 30 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Dallas Museum of Art, “The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso,” February 1-May 7, 2000, p. 131 (ill.), cat. 134; traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2, 1999-January 4, 2000.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 17, 58, 63n11, 235, 239, 241, cat. 181, 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), France [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.

Guérin 63 only

Kornfeld 45 only, B

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