Memory of Meijer de Haan

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1896/97

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Memory of Meijer de Haan
Origin: France
Date: 1896–1897
Medium: Wood-block print printed twice in black and brown ink, with dry brush and gray and ocher watercolor, on cream Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 106 × 81 mm (image/sheet)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1952.135
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Gauguin (Paris, 1927), n.p., cat. 53 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin Prints (Chicago, 1959), n.p. (ill.).
Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 160, no. 38.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gauguin’s Nirvana: Painters at Pouldu 1889-90, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn., 2001), pp. 122, 125, fig. 169.
June Hargrove, “Gauguin’s Maverick Sage: Meijer de Haan” in Visions: Gauguin and His Time (Amsterdam, 2010), pp. 100-101, fig. 10.

Paris, Galerie de la Pléiade, “Gauguin: Oeuvre Gravé,” May 26–June 14, 1931, cat. 29.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 87, cat. 173; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.
Tate Modern, London, “Gauguin: Maker of Myth,” September 30, 2010–January 16, 2011, pp. 75, 84, fig. 12; traveled to National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 27–June 5, 2011, cat. by Belinda Thompson, ed.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”, June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 45n20, 178, 187, cat. 116, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

Georges Daniel de Monfreid (1856-1929, Paris) by the winter of 1896-97 [Guérin 1927] from the artist. Louis Huc (son-in-law of Monfreid) by 1931 [Paris 1931]. Sold by Gerald Cramer, Geneva, to the Art Institute, 1952.

Guérin 53 only

Kornfeld 38 only

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