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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Two Tahitian Women and a Marquesan Earplug
    Paul Gauguin. Two Tahitian Women and a Marquesan Earplug, 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003209

    Two Tahitian Women and a Marquesan Earplug

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Probably Marcel Guiot, Paris, by May 1942 [Rewald 1958]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1950.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Gauguin," April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 21, cat. 71. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 67, cat. 97; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959. New York, Wildenstein & Co., Gauguin: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., Apr. 5–May 5, 1956, cat. 71. Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, Feb. 12–Mar. 29, 1959, cat. 97; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 23–May 31, 1959. Munich, Haus der Kunst, "World Cultures and Modern Art," June 16-September 30, 1972, p. 265, cat. 1744, organized by Siegfried Wichmann. Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture," November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982, p. 60, cat. 19 (ill.), cat. by Alan G. Wilkinson. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, pp. 256-257, cat. 141 (ill.); shown only at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1989. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 37 and 50, cat. 9 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist", June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 282, 283, cat. 223, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.

    Publications

    John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 31, no. 61 (ill.). Merete Bodelsen, "Gauguin and the Marquesan God," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 57 (March 1961), pp. 169-170, fig. 5. Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Gauguin (Calif., 1965), n.p. (ill.). Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin (London, 1970), p. 33, pl. 65. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 58, no. 3E7. Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, Paradise Reviewed: An Interpretation of Gauguin's Polynesian Symbolism (Ann Arbor, 1983), fig. 22 (ill.). Yann le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin (Paris, 1986). pp. 166, 261 (ill. detail). Petra Angelika Rohde, Paul Gauguin auf Tahiti: Ethnographische Wirklichkeit und Künstlerische Utopie (Rheinfelden, Germany, 1988), diss., pp. 144-145, fig. 40 (ill. detail). Moscow, State Pushkin Museum, Gauguin (Moscow, 1989), exh. cat., p. 162 (ill.). Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (Paris, 1990), pp. 166, 308, fig. 173 (detail). Bengt Danielsson, "Gauguin à la recherche de la Polynésie d'autrefois," Gauguin: Actes du colloque Gauguin (Paris, 1991), p. 249, fig. 4. Bronwen Nicholson, Gauguin and Maori Art (Auckland, 1995), p. 19, fig. 11. Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 87 and 109, no. 15 (ill.). Claire Frèches-Thory, Gauguin à Tahiti (Paris, 2003), n.p. (ill.). Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (Paris, 2003), p. 166, 308, fig. 173. Dario Gamboni, "Parahi te marae: où est le temple?" La Revue du Musée d'Orsay, 48/14 no. 20 (Paris, 2005), pp. 7, 10, fig. 4 (ill.). Henri Dorra, Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity: The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin (California, 2005), p. 190, fig. 91 (ill.). Dario Gamboni, Paul Gauguin: au "centre mystérieux de la pensée" (Dijon, 2013), pp. 353-354, fig. 187.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Gauguin / French, 1848-1903
    Date
    1891/93
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink and graphite on parchment
    Dimensions
    24 × 31.8 cm (9 1/2 × 12 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    David Adler Collection
    Accession no.
    1950.1413

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