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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Sketches of Various Animals and Head (recto), Sketches of a Head, Figure in Profile, Anatomical Details, and Animals (verso)
    Paul Gauguin. Sketches of Various Animals and Head (recto), Sketches of a Head, Figure in Profile, Anatomical Details, and Animals (verso), 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005851

    Sketches of Various Animals and Head (recto), Sketches of a Head, Figure in Profile, Anatomical Details, and Animals (verso)

    by Paul Gauguin

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    Provenance

    Sold by Sotheby's, New York, to Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago, as the agent for Edward McCormick Blair (1915-2010), November 14, 1985, lot 113 [acc. to Adam invoice]. Given by Edward McCormick Blair to the Art Institute, 2002.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon d’automne: 4me exposition, 1906, cat. 100, as Croquis (crayon et couleur).18 Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, July–Sept. 9, 1928, cat. 155 and cat. 143, as Tahiti-Kinder.19 Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, Oct. 1928, cat. 114, as Tahitikinder. Bar Harbor, Maine, Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, From Paradise to Eden: Gauguin in Tahiti, Aug. 10–Sept. 11, 1999, cat. 4. Auckland (New Zealand) City Art Gallery, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, Aug. 4–Oct. 15, 1995, cat. 7 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific; The Edward McCormick Blair Collection, Sept. 6, 2003–Jan. 11, 2004, cat. 2.

    Publications

    Société du Salon d’Automne, Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif, exh. cat. (Compagnie Français des Papiers-Monnaie, 1906), pp. 68–69. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 26, cat. 155. Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), cat. 143. Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 13, cat. 114. John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, Bittner Art Book (T. Yoseloff, 1958), p. 27, no. 35 (ill.). Ader Picard Tajan, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, Estampes: Epreuves provenant de l’ancienne Collection Henri Marillier et de divers amateurs, sale cat. (Nouveau Drouot, 1984) lot 118 (ill.). Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 35, 49, cat. 7 (ill.). Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, From Paradise to Eden: Gauguin in Tahiti, exh. cat. (College of the Atlantic, Ethel H. Blum Gallery, 1999), p. 9, cat. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific; The Edward McCormick Blair Collection, exhibition brochure (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), cat. 2.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Gauguin / French, 1848-1903
    Date
    1891/93
    Medium
    Graphite (recto); graphite, with pen and pale-yellow ink (originally purple) (verso); on cream wove paper, discolored to tan (removed from a sketchbook)
    Dimensions
    32 × 21.7 cm (12 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Edward McCormick Blair
    Accession no.
    2002.228.2

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