Te po (The Night) from the Noa Noa Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Te po (The Night) from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 1893–1894
Medium: Wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping, and hand-applied red, two tones of orange, yellow, two tones of blue, silver-gray, and black watercolor, on cream laid Japanese paper laid down on cream wove Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist)
Inscriptions: Monogrammed upper left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: 204 × 355 mm (image); 207 × 358 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.253

Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 15 (ill.).
Carl O. Schniewind, “Paul Gauguin,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 43:3 (September 1949), p. 49 (ill.).
Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), cat. 15.
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (France, 1988), p. 135-36 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 104, no. 21.
Gauguin: la Bibliothèque des Expositions (Paris, 1988), p. 66, fig. 40e (ill.).
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (Munich, 1992), pp. 104-105, fig. 9.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Milan, 1997), p. 188 (ill.).
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 220, cat. 11.

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, “Salon d’Automne,” 1906, cat. 141.
Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 44.
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 11, cat. 57.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 111 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 221 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 197.
London, The Leicester Galleries, “Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903),” May-June, 1931, p. 5, cat. 4.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 3.
New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 22, cat. 78.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 81, cat. 141; 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. 31, cat. 173, pl. 84 (ill.).
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, “Paul Gauguin,” June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 45, cat. 87, pl. 32.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 322, cat. 168(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. 16, 252, 255, cat. 198, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.