
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002104Seated Tahitian Youth
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris. 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. 178. The Art Institute of Chicago, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," March 24-April 16, 1913, cat. 141. Boston, Copley Hall, "International Exhibition of Modern Art," April 28-May 19, 1913, cat. 58. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 91, cat. 873. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 68, cat. 44. The Art Institute of Chicago, September 27, 1993-January 18, 1994. Tate Modern, London, "Gauguin: Maker of Myth," September 30, 2010–January 16, 2011, pp. 205, 210, fig. 140, shown only in London, cat. by Belinda Thompson, ed.
Publications
“Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17,1 (Jan. 1923), p. 11. Rose Mary Fischkin, "Notes on Some Modern Drawings," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21,3 (Mar. 1927), p. 36. Beatrice Wilczynski, European Paintings Exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show (Chicago, 1955), p. 18, no. 141, pl. II, no. 17 (ill.). Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Utica, NY, 1963), p. 190, no. 178. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, The Art Institute of Chicago: French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 58, cat. 3E6. Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (Washington D.C., 1988), p. 268-269, no. 178. Colta Ives and Susan Alyson Stein, et. al., The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, exh. cat. (New York, 2002), p. 154, fig. 59. Anna Gruetzner Robins, "Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a Checklist of Exhibits," in The Burlington Magazine (London, 2010), vol. 152, no. 1293, p. 788. Francisco Durrio (1868-1940): Sobre las Huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Bilbao, 2013), p. 208. no. 3 (ill.).
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
- 1894/1903
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite on irregularly shaped cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with brown and blue fibers, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 237 × 157 mm (primary support); 352 × 227 (secondary support); 451 × 312 (tertiary support)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Accession no.
- 1922.4796
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