
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002102Head of a Tahitian with Profile of Second Head to His Right
by Paul Gauguin
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left, in graphite: "Hauteur"
Provenance
Emily Crane Chadbourne, Chicago, by 1913 [New York 1913]; given to the Art Institute, 1922.
Exhibition history
London, Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, Nov. 8, 1910–Jan. 15, 1911, no cat. no. New York, 69th Regiment Armory, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," February 17–March 15, 1913, p. 26, cat. 177. The Art Institute of Chicago, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," March 24-April 16, 1913, cat. 140. Boston, Copley Hall, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," April 28-May 19, 1913, cat. 57. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 91, cat. 875. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 68, cat. 49. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Gauguin," April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 20, cat. 62. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 67, cat. 98; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 21-May 31, 1959. Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Paul Gauguin," April 1-May 29, 1960, p. 20, cat. 108, pl. 65 (ill.). Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, "Paul Gauguin," June 7-July 31, 1960, p. 42, cat. 55, pl. 27. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 116. Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972. Palm Beach, Fl., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 19. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 72 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 152-153, cat. 73 (ill.). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 223-224, cat. 122 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988. Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Paul Gauguin - Tahiti," February 7-June 1, 1998, pp. 32-33 and 167, cat. 22 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al.
Publications
London, Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Grafton Galleries, 1910), n.pag., no cat. no.10 Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (n.p., 1913), p. 26, cat. 177. Art Institute of Chicago, International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), n.pag., cat. 140. Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Copley Society of Boston, 1913), n.pag., cat. 57. Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin (H. Floury, 1919), p. 49 (ill.). “Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, no. 1 (Jan. 1923), p. 11. Robert Rey, Gauguin (F. Rieder, 1923), p. 63, pl. 40.11 Rose Mary Fischkin, “Notes on Some Modern Drawings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 21, no. 3 (Mar. 1927), p. 36. Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Bernheim Jeune, 1930), pp. 216 (ill.), 273. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 91, cat. 875. John Rewald, Gauguin (Hyperion, 1938; repr., 1949), pp. 154 (ill.), 167. Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat, exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 68, cat. 49. René Huyghe and Philippe Jaccottet, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle (Mermod, 1948), pp. 116 (ill.), 176, 182. Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (Oxford University Press, 1950), pp. 212–13, pl. 119. Beatrice Wilczynski, “European Paintings Exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show” (1955), unpublished manuscript, p. 18, no. 140, pl. II, Ryerson Library. Robert Goldwater and Carl O. Schniewind, Gauguin: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1956), p. 20, cat. 62. Henri Perruchot, Gauguin Tahiti (Hazan, 1958), n.pag. (ill.). John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, Bittner Art Book (T. Yoseloff, 1958), p. 36, no. 92 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 67, cat. 98. Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, with essays by Germain Bazin and Harold Joachim, exh. cat. (Ausstellungsleitung München e.V. Haus der Kunst, 1960), p. 20, cat. 108, pl. 65. Oberes Belvedere, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, 1960), p. 42, cat. 55, pl. 27. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: An Exhibition Held at Wildenstein, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1963), n.pag., cat. 116. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), p. 190, no. 177. Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Gauguin (Borden, 1965), n.pag. (ill.). René Huyghe, Gauguin (Flammarion, 1967), p. 72 (ill.). Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin (P. Hamlyn, 1970), p. 34, pl. 69. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Krannert Art Museum, 1972), n.pag. Nina Stanculescu-Zamfirescu, Gauguin, trans. Sylvia May Oldfield-Florescu (Murrays Sales, 1973), p. 36, fig. 29. Society of Four Arts, Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Society of Four Arts, 1974), n.pag., cat. 19. Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso, exh. cat. (Secrétariat d’État à la Culture, Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1976), n.pag., cat. 72 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 60–61, nos. 3E12 and 3F1 (ill.). Richard Shone, The Post-Impressionists (Book Club Associates, 1980), pp. 96–97 (ill). Yann Le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin (R. Laffont, 1986), pp. 218, 262 (ill.).Translated by I. Mark Paris as Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration (Abrams, 1987), pp. 218, 264, fig. 421. Christie’s, New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, pt. 1, sale cat. (Nov. 10, 1987), pp. 60, 62 (ill.). Michel Hoog, Paul Gauguin: Life and Work (Rizzoli, 1987), p. 162, fig. 112. Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), pp. 223–24, cat. 122 (ill.). Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (Abbeville, 1988), p. 268, no. 177. René Huyghe, Gauguin (Crown, 1988), p. 77 (ill.). Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (1988; repr., Flammarion, 2003), p. 148, 308, fig. 155.12 Peggy Vance, Gauguin (Studio Editions, 1991), p. 28 (ill.). Andrew Martinez, “A Mixed Reception for Modernism: The 1914 Armory Show at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 19, no. 1 (1993), p. 40, fig. 8. Christoph Becker, ed., Paul Gauguin: Tahiti, exh. cat. (G. Hatje, 1998), pp. 32–33, 167, cat. 22 (ill.). Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein, The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, with Charlotte Hale and Marjorie Shelley, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 154, fig. 59; 193–94, figs. 85a and 85b. Anna Gruetzner Robins, “Manet and the Post-Impressionists: A Checklist of Exhibits,” Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (Dec. 2010), p. 788.
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
- 1891/93
- Medium
- Black and red chalk, selectively stumped, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 36.9 cm (13 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Accession no.
- 1922.4794R
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