Manau tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite

1893/94

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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

Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 19.
Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), cat. 19.
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (France, 1988), p. 125-26 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 96 and p. 97 (ill.), no. 20.
Gauguin: la Bibliothèque des Expositions (Paris, 1988), pp. 66-67, fig. 40h (ill.).
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1990), n.p., fig. 77 (ill.).
Pierre Petit and Bronwen Nicholson, Noa Noa (Munich, 1992), p. 99, fig. 3.
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (New York, 1992), n.p., fig. 77.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Milan: Mondadori, 1997), p. 190 (ill.).
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 219, cat. 5.

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.