Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary)

1894/95, published Mar. 1895

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Origin: France
Date: 1894–1895
Medium: Transfer zincograph on coarse-grained transfer paper, in dark-blue ink on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 257 × 186 mm (image); 381 × 281 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Albert Roullier Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1921.370

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 130, no. 27

Chicago, The Renaissance Society, “Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints,” July 2-August 16, 1931.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Paul Gauguin,” April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 74, cat. 85.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture,” February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 140; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959.

Albert Roullier (American, died 1920), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1921.

Guérin 51 only

Kornfeld 27 only, B.b