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    Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)
    Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso), 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004896

    Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [letter from Carl Schniewind to Jean Goriany of November 10, 1949 in curatorial file]. Sold by the Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1949.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, "Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin," December 17, 1926, cat. 25. Kunsthalle Basel, "Paul Gauguin," July-August, 1928, p. 28, cat. 197 (1st ed.), cat. 189 (2nd ed.). Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, "Paul Gauguin," October 1928, p. 14, cat. 167. London, The Leicester Galleries, "Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin," May-June 1931, p. 11, cat. 61.

    Publications

    “Une lettre inédite de Gauguin,” Les marges 14, no. 52 (May 15, 1918), p. 168 (ill.). Association Paris–Amerique Latine, Exposition rétrospective: Hommage au génial artiste franco-péruvien Gauguin, with introductions by F. Cossio del Pomar and G. Daniel de Monfreid, exh. cat. (n.p., 1926), no pg. no., cat. 25. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 28, cat. 197. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 28, cat. 189. Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 14, cat. 167. Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Bernheim-Jeune, 1930), p. 233 (ill.). Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1931), p. 11, cat. 61. Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, with Raymond Cogniat and Daniel Wildenstein, vol. 1, Catalogue (Beaux-Arts, 1964), p. 184, under cat. 458. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 61–62 (ill.), no. 3F3. Paul Gauguin, “A ma fille Aline, ce cahier est dédié”: Notes éparses, sans suite comme les rêves, comme la vie toute fait de morceaux; Journal de jeune fille, ed. Victor Merlhès, vol. 2, facsimile ed. (William Blake/Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie, p. 40 (ill.). Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (Hachette, 1989), p. 136 (ill.). Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, and María Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), p. 215, no. 8 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Gauguin / French, 1848-1903
    Date
    1891/93
    Medium
    Pen and brownish-black ink (originally dark purple), over pen and brown ink (originally purple) (recto) and graphite (verso) on cream wove paper (discolored to tan) (removed from a sketchbook)
    Dimensions
    22.5 × 7.3 cm (8 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
    Accession no.
    1949.649

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