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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)
    Paul Gauguin. Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso), 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004786

    Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

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    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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