Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005015Sketches of Figures, Pandanus Leaf, and Vanilla Plant
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Georges Daniel de Monfreid (1856-1929, Paris). Given by Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann to the Art Institute, 1966.
Exhibition history
Geneva, Gérald Cramer, "Catalogue de Très Beaux Livres Illustrés Estampes et Sculptures Modernes," p. 27, cat. 75 (ill.). New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, "The Many-sided Artist," March 1961, cat. 34, plate XXIV. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 35 and 49, cat. 6 (ill. and back cover ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 57, no. 3F3. Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 81 and 108, no. 9 (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 and watercolor on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
- Dimensions
- 31.3 × 20.1 cm (12 3/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann
- Accession no.
- 1966.545V
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