
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004786Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Sold by Galerie St. Etienne, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, p. 68, cat. 48 (recto). The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Gauguin in Tahiti," 1950 (recto). New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Gauguin," April 5-May 5, 1956, p. 21, cat. 72 as Two crouched Tahitian Women (recto).
Publications
Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 68, cat. 48. Robert Goldwater and Carl O. Schniewind, Gauguin: Loan Exhibitionfor the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1956), p. 21, cat. 72. Robert Goldwater, Paul Gauguin (Abrams, 1957), p. 26 (ill.). Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Gauguin (Borden, 1965), n.pag. (ill.). René Huyghe, Gauguin (Flammarion, 1967), p. 68 (ill.). Alberto Martini, I maestri del colore: Gauguin (Fratelli Fabbri, 1963, 1977), n.pag., fig. 2. Translated as Ernst W. Glaub, Galerie der Grossen Maler: Gauguin (Bastei, 1968), n.pag., fig. 2. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 58 (ill.), no. 3E5. Robert Goldwater, Paul Gauguin (Abrams, 1983), p. 24 (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
- 1891/93
- Medium
- Black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
- Dimensions
- 17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- crayon
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Samuel P. Avery Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.521
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