Tahitian Idol—the Goddess Hina

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1894/95

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Tahitian Idol—the Goddess Hina
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 reddish-brown ink with blue-gray watercolor on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Monogrammed lower left, in plate: "PGO"
Dimensions: Image/primary/secondary support: 14.2 × 9.9 cm (5 5/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.268
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Marcel Guérin, L’ Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 45 (ill.).
Carl O. Schniewind, “Paul Gauguin,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 43:3 (September 1949), p. 50 (ill.).
Merete Bodelsen, Gauguin’s Ceramics: A Study in the Development of his Art (Copenhagen, 1964), pp. 145-146, fig. 96 (ill.).
Marcel Guérin, L’ Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (San Francisco, 1980), no. 44 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 146, no. 32.
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 221, cat. 20.

Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 37.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 103 (1st ed.), p. 29, cat. 213 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 189.
London, The Leicester Galleries, “Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903),” May-June, 1931, p. 6, cat. 6.
New York, Bignou Gallery, “Gauguin: First Trip to Tahiti,” January 3–14, 1939, cat. 17.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 87, cat. 168; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, “Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture,” November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982, p. 67, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Alan G. Wilkinson.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, “World Cultures and Modern Art,” June 15-September 30, 1972, p. 267, cat. 1765 (ill.), organized by Siegfried Wichmann.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 238, 245, cat. 186, 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 44 only

Kornfeld 32 only

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