Manau tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), 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: Manau tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), 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 a transferred twill impression, on pale-pink wove paper (faded to tan)
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: 204 × 356 mm (image); 207 × 357 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.256

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. 155.
Association Paris–Amerique Latine, Exposition rétrospective: Hommage au génial artiste franco-péruvien Gauguin, with introductions by F. Cossio del Pomar and G. Daniel de Monfried, exh. cat. (n.p., 1926), cat. 51.
Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 19.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 25, cat. 115.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 30, cat. 225.
Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 15, cat. 201
Musée du Luxembourg, Gauguin: Sculpteur et graveur, exh. cat. (Musée du Luxembourg, 1928), p. 11, cat. 61.
Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1931), p. 7, cat. 20.
Bignou Gallery, Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti, exh. cat. (Bignou Gallery, 1939) n.pag., cat. 6.
Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa, transcription, ed. Pierre Petit, commentary by Bronwen Nicholson (J.-J. Pauvert, 1988), pp. 125–26 (ill.).
Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), p. 326, cat. 176 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), pp. 96–97, cat. 20 (ill.).
Adam Biro, Gauguin: La bibliothèque des expositions (A. Biro, 1988), pp. 66-67, fig. 40h.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (A. Michel, 1990), n.pag, fig. 77. Translated as Paul Gauguin (Rizzoli, 1992), n.pag., fig. 77.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Mondadori, 1997), p. 190 (ill.).
Anna Barskaya, Paul Gauguin (Grange, 2004), p. 155, fig. 119.
Gauguin (Parkstone International, 2010), pp. 162–63 (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. 219, no. 5 (ill.).

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, “Salon d’Automne,” 1906, cat. 155.
Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 51.
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 11, cat. 61.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 115 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 225 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 201.
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. 20.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 6.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 326, cat. 176 (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, 31, 38-40, 45n17, 45n21, 84, 260, 262, cat. 205, 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.

Schniewind 16 III/IVd

Guérin 19 II/III

Kornfeld 20 III/IV

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