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AT-00005853Seated Tahitian Women (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?]) and Other Sketches
by Paul Gauguin
Provenance
Achille Weber, Paris by 1920 [acc. to Adam invoice]. From the nephew of Achille Weber [acc. to Adam invoice]. Sold to Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago, as the agent for Edward McCormick Blair (1915-2010), Chicago, March 13, 1985 [acc. to Adam invoice]. Given by Edward McCormick Blair to the Art Institute, 2002.
Exhibition history
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 38 and 50, cat. 12 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection," September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004, checklist 6.
Publications
G. M. Sugana, Gauguin (Rizzoli, 1972), p. 103, under cat. 276. Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), p. 279, under cat. 153 (ill.). Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 38, 50, cat. 12 (ill.). 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. 6.
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 pen and brown ink (originally purple), with traces of graphite on cream wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
- Dimensions
- 24.8 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Edward McCormick Blair
- Accession no.
- 2002.233R
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