Mahana atua (Day of the God)

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Prints and Drawings

1894/95

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Mahana atua (Day of the God)
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.: 1894–1895
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink with touches of solvent-thinned blue, red, and orange watercolors (recto); wood-block print, printed twice in brown and brown-black ink (a maculature impression) (verso), on cream Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "PGO"; inscribed lower right, in plate: "Mahana Atua"
Dimensions: Image: 18 × 20.3 cm (7 1/8 × 8 in.); Sheet: 18.4 × 20.5 cm (7 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.267
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Marcel Guérin, L’ Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 42 (ill.).
Carl O. Schniewind, “Paul Gauguin,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 43:3 (September 1949), p. 46 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Marcel Guérin, L’ Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), no. 42 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 142-43, no. 31 (ill.).
The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Washington D.C., 1988), p. 364 (ill.).
Bernard Denvir, Paul Gauguin: The Search for Paradise, Letters from Brittany and the South Seas (London, 1992), p. 104 (ill.).
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 222, cat. 25.

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, “Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur,” January–February, 1928, p. 12, cat. 74.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 104 (1st ed.), p. 29, cat. 214 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 190.
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. 16.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 16.
New York, Wildenstein, “Gauguin,” April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 23, cat. 90.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, pp. 85 and 87, cat. 167; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Gauguin Metamorphoses”, February 25 - June 9, 2014, pp. 131, 227 pl. 77, cat. by Starr Figura, et. al
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 260, 266-267, cat. 213, 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 31 I/II

Guérin 42

Schniewind 27 I/IIb

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