Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005916Man with an Ax
by Paul Gauguin
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, in graphite: "2"
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 24, 1963, lot 17, to Robert M. Light, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg (1921–2015), Brookline, MA., July 12, 1963; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Gauguin Tahiti," Feb. 29–June 20, 2004, not in cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master through Modern: The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, cat. 64 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist," June 25-Sept. 10, 2017, pp. 222-23, cat. 161 (ill.); also Paris, Grand Palais, Oct. 9, 2017-Jan. 21, 2018.
Publications
Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin (H. Floury, 1919), p. 128 (ill.). John Rewald, Gauguin (Hyperion, 1938), p. 114 (ill.). Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, with Raymond Cogniat and Daniel Wildenstein, vol. 1, Catalogue (Beaux-Arts, 1964), pp. 169, 195, under cat. 430 and 484. Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master through Modern; The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2006), p. 99, cat. 64 (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
- 1893/94
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, and brush and black wash, with pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of graphite, on heavily textured ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.1 × 25.1 cm (13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.81
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