
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005963Portrait of Tehamana
by Paul Gauguin
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.).
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
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