
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005105Head of a Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Anatomical Details (verso)
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Francisco "Paco" Durrio (1868-1940), Paris. Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago. Bequeathed by Edith Cummings Munson to the Art Institute, 1985.
Exhibition history
Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, "Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin," December 17, 1926, cat. 102. Basel, Kunsthalle, "Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903," July-August 1928, p. 28, cat. 186 (1st ed.), 183 (2nd ed.). Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, "Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903," October 1928, p. 14, cat. 159.
Publications
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 pag. no., cat. 102. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 28, cat. 186. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), cat. 183, p. 28. Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 14, cat. 159. 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. 214, no 5 (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
- Pen and brown ink (originally purple) (recto); graphite (verso); on cream wove paper, discolored to tan (removed from a sketchbook)
- Dimensions
- 14 × 8.8 cm (5 9/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Edith Cummings Munson
- Accession no.
- 1985.981
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