Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite

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Prints and Drawings

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite
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.: 1893–1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, over traces of brown ink, with hand-applied blue, light blue, several greens, pink, orange, pale-orange, yellow, pale-red, and dark-gray watercolor, on ivory Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed upper center, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: Image: 35.4 × 20.3 cm (13 15/16 × 8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 20.6 cm (14 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.254
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Société du Salon d’Automne, Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif, exh. cat. (Compagnie Française des Papiers-Monnaie, 1906), cat. 146.
Association Paris–Amerique Latine, Exposition rétrospective: Hommage au génial artiste franco-péruvien Gauguin, with introductions by F. Cossio del Pomar and G. Daniel de Monfreid, exh. cat. (n.p., 1926), cat. 47.
Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 16.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 25, cat. 113.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 30, cat. 223.
Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 15, cat. 199.
Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1931), p. 7, cat. 18.
Bignou Gallery, Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti, foreword by Carl O. Schniewind, exh. cat. (Bignou Gallery, 1939), cat. 4.
Robert Goldwater and Carl O. Schniewind, Gauguin: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1956), p. 22, cat. 79.
Richard S. Field, “Noa Noa Suite,” Burlington Magazine 110, no. 786 (Sept. 1968), pp. 501, 504, fig. 23.
University of Pennsylvania, University Museum, Gauguin and Exotic Art, exh. cat. (University Museum, 1969), p. 18, cat. 11.
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 50, cat. 13.
Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa, transcription, ed. Pierre Petit, commentary by Bronwen Nicholson (J.-J. Pauvert, 1988), pp. 130–31 (ill.).
Belinda Thomson, Gauguin (1987; repr., Thames & Hudson, 1997), p. 178, fig. 157.
Alastair Wright and Calvin Brown, Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints, exh. cat. (Princeton University Art Museum/Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 27, 100, 130, cat. 15 (ill.)
Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, and María Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), p. 220, no. 12.

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, “Salon d’Automne,” 1906, cat. 147.
Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 47.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 113 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 223 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 199.
London, The Leicester Galleries, “Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903),” May-June, 1931, p. 7, cat. 18.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 4.
New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 22, cat. 79.
Philadelphia, Penn Museum, “Gauguin and Exotic Art,” 1969, p. 18, cat. 11.
Princeton University Art Museum, “Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints,” September 25, 2010-January 2, 2011, pp. 27, 100, 130, cat. 15(ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 212, 214, cat. 146, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Francisco “Paco” Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [Kornfeld 1988]. Sold by Walter Geiser, Basel, to the Art Institute, 1948.

Kornfeld 13 II/III

Guérin 16 I/II

Schniewind 15 II/IIId

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