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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Woman Strolling
    Paul Gauguin. Woman Strolling, c. 1880. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002007

    Woman Strolling

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Mette Gauguin (1850-1920), Copenhagen. Karl Ernst Osthaus, Essen. Graphisches Kabinett [Günther Franke (1900-1976)], Munich; sold to Edward M. M. Warburg (1908-1992), New York, 1931; private collection; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 12, 1999, lot 12 to The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, California; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, 6ème Exposition de peinture [des Impressionistes], Apr.–May 1881, cat. 39 as Dame en promenade. Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Opening Exhibition, Feb.–Mar. 1934, cat. 42. New York, Buchholtz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Sculpture by Painters, Oct.–Nov. 1939, cat. 15 as Standing Woman. Arts Club of Chicago, Sculpture by Painters, Jan. 1940, cat. no. 12. New York, Wildenstein & Company, Inc., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of The Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., April - May 1956, cat. 59 as Standing Woman, La Parisienne; incorrectly dated c. 1892. New York, Jewish Museum, 10th Anniversary Collectors’ Exhibition, May – June 1957. Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, summer 1957. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, June–Aug. 1958. Art Institute of Chicago, Paul Gauguin, Feb. 12–Mar. 29, 1959; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gauguin, Apr. 12–May 31, 1959, cat. 116. Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, summer 1961. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882, Nov. 1979–Jan. 1980, cat. 23. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; Art Institute of Chicago, Sep. 17–Dec. 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, Jan. 10–Apr. 20, 1989, 25, cat. 6. Martigny, France, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Gauguin, June 10–Nov. 22, 1998, cat. 8 as Dame en promenade. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Gauguin and Impressionism, Aug. 30–Nov. 20, 2005; Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, Dec. 15, 2005–Mar. 26, 2006, 138-40, cat. 22. Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Paul Gauguin: Artist of Myth and Dream, Oct. 6, 2007–Feb. 3, 2008, cat. 6. Maritime Museum of San Diego, Cook, Melville & Gauguin: Three Voyages to Paradise, June 2011-July 2012, cat. 148. Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, June 25–Sep. 10, 2017, cat. 3; Paris, Grand Palais, Gauguin l'alchimiste, Oct. 9, 2017–Jan. 21, 2018, cat. 28.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim and Allan McNab, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), 72 cat. 116. Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin exh. cat. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963), 113 cat. 4. The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1980), 112, no. 23 (ill. 25). Richard R. Brettell, et. Al., The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Washington: National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 25-26, cat. 6. Richard R. Brettell, Gauguin. (Paris: Éditions de La Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989), 54-55, cat. 6. Ronald Pickvance, Gauguin (Martigny, Switzerland: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1998), 58 cat. 8 as Dame en promenade. Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism. New Haven: Yale University Press in Association with the Kimbell Art Museum, 2005, 138-40, cat. no. 22. Suzanne Branciforte, Stephen Eisenman, and Charles F. Stuckey, Paul Gauguin: Artist of Myth and Dream, exh. cat. 1st ed. (Milan, Italy: New York, NY: Skira; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International, 2007), 162, cat. 6. “Cook, Melville, and Gauguin: Three Voyages to Paradise: Treasures of the Kelton Collection,” Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History 47, no. ¾ (Summer/Fall 2011): 122, cat. 148. Gloria Groom, ed., Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), 14, 27, 83, 86, 89 cat. 3. Claire Bernardi and Ophélie Ferlier, Gauguin: l'alchimiste, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2018), 47 cat. 28. Alexandre Lafore, "Trois sculptures du XIXe siècle pour l’Art Institute de Chicago," La Tribune de l'Art (December 2019): fig. 3

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
    Date
    c. 1880
    Medium
    Tropical laurel (Terminalia), stained red and black
    Dimensions
    H.: 25 cm (9 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    sculpture
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
    Accession no.
    2019.1233

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