Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 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: 354 × 203 mm (image); 357 × 206 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.254

Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), p. 9, cat. 16.
Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), p. 9, no. 16.
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (France, 1988), p. 130-31 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 50, no. 13.
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (Munich, 1992), pp. 101-102, fig. 6.
Belinda Thompson, Gauguin (London, 1997), p. 178, fig. 157 (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. 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.