Oviri

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1894

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Oviri
Origin: France
Date: 1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink on cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 204 × 117 mm (image/primary/secondary support)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1948.273R

Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 48.
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin (Bilbao, 2013), p. 222, cat. 22.

Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 54.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 25, cat. 120 (1st ed.), p. 30, cat. 230 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903,” October 1928, p. 16, cat. 206.
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. 8.
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, “Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture,” November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982, p. 68, cat. 26 (ill.), cat. by Alan G. Wilkinson.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “The Art of Paul Gauguin,” 1988, p. 375, cat. 213a; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988, and the Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1989.
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. 31, 32, 40-41, 270, 276, cat. 221, 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 48 only

Kornfeld 35 only

Schniewind 31

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