
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004901Bust of a Young Breton Woman (Possibly Marie Lagadu)
by Paul Gauguin
Inscriptions
Signed recto, on sitter’s left lapel in image, in black fabricated chalk: "P / G"
Provenance
Sold by Galerie Roger Ferrero, Geneva, Switzerland, for Dr. Otto Wertheimer (1896–1972), Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 19, 1955.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Carl O. Schniewind: Memorial Exhibition," January 22–March 3, 1958, cat. 12, as Head of a Young Brittany Peasant. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, "Van Clouet tot Matisse: Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties", July 31–Sept. 28, 1958, cat. 170, pl. 163, as Kop van een Bretonse vrouw; Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, as "De Clouet à Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines", 1958–59, cat. 170, pl. 177, as Tête d’une Bretonne; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, as "French Drawings from American Collections", Feb. 3–Mar. 15, 1959, cat. 170, pl. 163, as Head of a Breton Woman. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 63, cat. 73; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist", June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp, 118, 120, cat. 36, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al., traveled to Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, October 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018.
Publications
Frederick B. Adams, Jr., Carl O. Schniewind, 1900–1957: Catalogue of the Carl O. Schniewind Memorial Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1958), n.pag. cat. 12. Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat. (Museum Boymans, 1958), p. 112, cat. 170, pl. 163. Musée de l'Orangerie, De Clouet à Matisse, exh. cat. (Musée de l'Orangerie, 1958), cat. 170, pl. 177. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959), p. 112, cat. 168, pl. 147. John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 24, no. 8 (ill.). Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, vol. III (New York, 1962), no. 823 (ill.). Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Gauguin (Calif., 1965), n.pag. (ill.). Gaston Diehl, Gauguin (Crown, 1967), p. 20 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 58-59, no. 3E8. Richard Shone, The Post-Impressionists (London, 1980), p. 59, fig. 67. Charles-Guy Le Paul and Judy Le Paul, L'impressionnisme dans l'école de Pont-Aven: Monet, Renoir, Gauguin et leurs disciples (Lausanne, Paris, 1983), pp. 82-83 (ill.). Judy Le Paul and Charles-Guy Le Paul, Gauguin and the Impressionists at Pont-Aven (New York, 1987), p. 82 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein with Sylvie Crussard and Martine Heudron, Gauguin: Premier Itinéraire d'un Sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre Peint (1873-1888), vol. II (Paris, 2001), p. 402 (ill.). Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism (Fort Worth and Ordrupgaard, 2005), exh. cat., pp. 288, 290, fig. 219. Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), p. 70 (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
- 1886/88
- Medium
- Black fabricated chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 × 31.3 cm (11 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Arthur Heun Fund
- Accession no.
- 1955.1023R
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