Noa noa (Fragrant)

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: Noa noa (Fragrant)
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 red, orange, blue, mauve, light green, and green watercolor on parchment
Dimensions: Image: 14.5 × 11.8 cm (5 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 14.7 × 12 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.270
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 47.
Carl O. Schniewind, “Paul Gauguin,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 43:3 (September 1949), p. 51 (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), pp. 150-51, no. 34 (ill.).
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 221, cat. 14.

Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, “Salon d’Automne,” 1906, cat. 146.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 105 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 215 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 15, cat. 191.
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. 11.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 87, cat. 171; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp, 16, 31, 212, 215, cat. 148, 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 47 only

Schniewind 30 I/III

Kornfeld 34 I/III

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