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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005073Sketches of Seated Figures and Chickens (recto), Nude Female Torso (related to the painting Te a no areois [The Seed of the Areoi]) (verso), from the Carnet de Tahiti (Tahitian sketchbook)
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Sold by Gerald Cramer to the Art Institute of Chicago, February 1955 [acc. to book inscription].
Publications
Bernard Dorival, "Carnet de Tahiti" vol. 2 (Paris, 1954), no. 74 (ill.) (recto and verso).
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
- Graphite (recto); graphite with traces of green watercolor offset (verso); on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
- Dimensions
- 10.8 × 16.7 cm (4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Carrie Lake Morton Fund
- Accession no.
- 1970.1231
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