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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Head of a Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Anatomical Details (verso)
    Paul Gauguin. Head of a Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Anatomical Details (verso), 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005105

    Head of a Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Anatomical Details (verso)

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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