ART TRACKERSConnecting fine art to people
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Art Trackers logo
ART TRACKERS
Connecting fine art to people

Connecting fine art to people. Preserving cultural legacy through technology.

Platform

FeaturesHow It WorksSecurityIntegrations

Government

For Cities & CountiesComplianceResourcesCase Studies

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Portrait of Tehamana
    Paul Gauguin. Portrait of Tehamana, 1891/93. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005963

    Portrait of Tehamana

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris; Vollard estate, from 1939; to Wladimir Walter, Quatre Chemins, Paris; sold to James Lord (1922–2009), Paris, from 1947 [all early provenance is according to a letter from James Lord of Sept. 25, 1960 in curatorial file]. John L. Senior, Jr. [Chicago 1959]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Carl O. Schniewind: Memorial Exhibition," January 22–March 3, 1958, cat. 11. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific," August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 38 and 50, cat. 11 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers. Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Paul Gauguin - Tahiti," February 7-June 2, 1998, pp. 32 and 166, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Christoph Becker et. al.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 62, no. 3F4 3F5. Yann le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin (Paris, 1986), pp. 154, 261 (ill.). Yann le Pichon, Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration (New York, 1987), pp. 154, 262, fig. 287. René Huyghe, Gauguin (New York, 1988), p. 77 (ill.). Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1990), n.p., fig. 99. Michael Gibson, Paul Gauguin (New York, 1992), n.p., fig. 99. Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 84 and 108, no. 12 (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.

    • View this work at the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Art Institute of Chicago: open-access terms

    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
    Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, selectively fixedr
    Dimensions
    41.3 × 32.5 cm (16 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    prints and drawing
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of David Adler and his friends
    Accession no.
    1956.1215V

    More by Paul Gauguin in museum collections

    • In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)

      Paul Gauguin

      1889 · Painting

      Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

      AT-00000256
    • Head of a Tahitian Woman

      Paul Gauguin

      1891 · Drawing

      Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

      AT-00000306
    • Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)

      Paul Gauguin

      1892 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000595
    • No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)

      Paul Gauguin

      1896 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000746

    Open-access museum record · AT-00005963

    Powered by Art Trackers