Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002002Vase in the Form of a Tropical Plant with Bird and Deity
by Paul Gauguin
Inscriptions
Signed: PGo 60
Provenance
Albert Dauprat (1857–1921), Paris. Sold, Sotheby's London, Dec. 3, 1975, lot 43. J. Mallin, New York. Aldis Browne Fine Arts, Venice, California; sold to the Josefowitz family, 1992; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, June 25-Sept. 10. 2017; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Oct. 9, 2017-Jan. 1, 2018.
Publications
Martin Schwander, "Paul Gauguin: The Great Inconsolable Magician, An Introduction," in Raphaël Bouvier and Martin Schwander, eds., Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Foundation Beyler: Basel, 2015), 14, 15 fig. 8. “Gauguin, Cat. 7, Vase in Form of Plant (2011.306),” in Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), https://publications.artic.edu/gauguin/reader/gauguinart/section/140163. Gloria Groom, ed. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/ Yale University Press, 2017). p. 22, 96, 106, 222, 226, 227,335, cat. 165. Claire Bernardi and Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat, Guaguin: L’alchimiste, exh. cat. (Musée d’Osay/ Réunion des muséea nationaux-Grand Palais/ Graphicom, 2017), p. 158, 313, cat. 165.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
- Date
- 1887–88
- Medium
- Stoneware painted with slip and gold
- Dimensions
- 21.5 × 17 × 12 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- vase
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Through prior purchase of the Estate of Suzette Morton Davidson, Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment, Dellora A. Norris Funds
- Accession no.
- 2011.306
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