Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), 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: Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite
Origin: France
Date: 1893–1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, with hand-applied red, blue, green, yellow, red-orange, and silver-gray watercolor on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in image: "P G O"
Dimensions: 354 × 200 mm (image); 357 × 204 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.261
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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), p. 68, cat. 140.
Antonio García de Linares, Primera exposición internacional de pintura y escultura, exh. cat. (Imp. Eléxpuru Hnos., 1919), p. 14, cat. 123.
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. 41.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 25, cat. 109.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 30, cat. 219.
Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 15, cat. 195.
Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1931), p. 5, cat. 2.
Marcel Guérin, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (H. Floury, 1927; Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980), cat. 28.
Musée du Luxembourg, Gauguin: Sculpteur et graveur, exh. cat. (Musée du Luxembourg, 1928), p. 11, cat. 66.
New York, Bignou Gallery, Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti, foreword by Carl O. Schniewind, exh. cat. (Bignou Gallery, 1939) n. pag., cat. 10.
Carl O. Schniewind, “Paul Gauguin,” special issue, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 43, no. 3 (Sept. 1949), p. 47 (ill.).
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. 23, cat. 85.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), n.pag. (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 84, cat. 154.
Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, with essays by Germain Bazin and Harold Joachim, exh. cat. (Ausstellungsleitung München e.V. Haus der Kunst, 1960), p. 32, cat. 180.
Oberes Belvedere, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, 1960), p. 44, cat. 76.
Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa, transcription, ed. Pierre Petit, commentary by Bronwen Nicholson (J.-J. Pauvert, 1988), pp. 128–29 (ill. and cover 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), pp. 296, 324, cat. 172 (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. 56–57 (ill.), cat. 14.
Adam Biro, Gauguin: La bibliothèque des expositions (A. Biro, 1988), pp. 66–67, fig. 40f (ill.).
Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (A. Michel, 1990), n.pag., fig. 73 (ill.). Translated as Paul Gauguin (Rizzoli, 1992), n.pag., fig. 73.
Anna Maria Damigella, Paul Gauguin: La vita e l’opera (Mondadori, 1997), p. 191 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific; The Edward McCormick Blair Collection, exhibition brochure (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), cat. 20.
Anna Barskaya, Paul Gauguin (Grange, 2004), p. 154, fig. 116.
Heather Lemonedes, “Paul Gauguin’s High Yellow Note: The Volpini Suite” (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 2006), pp. xviii, 172, fig. 5.2.
Gauguin (Parkstone International, 2010), pp. 156–57 (ill.).
Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, and María Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), p. 219, no. 2 (ill.).

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, “Salon d’Automne,” 1906, cat. 140.
Bilbao, Spain, Escuelas de Berastegui, “Primera Exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura,” August-September, 1919, p. 14, cat. 123.
Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 41.
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 11, cat. 66.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 109 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 219 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 195.
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. 2.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 10.
New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 23, cat. 85.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 84, cat. 154; 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. 32, cat. 180.
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, “Paul Gauguin,” June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 44, cat. 76.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, “Prints 1800-1945: A Loan Exhibition From Museums and Private Collections,” March-September, 1966, cat. 75.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” May 1-July 31, 1988, p. 296, 324, cat. 172 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection,” September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 16, 35, 36, 37, 44n3, 222, 232, 233, cat. 175, 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.

Guérin 28 II/III

Kornfeld 14 II/IV

Schniewind 20 II/IVc

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