
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006130Head of a Tahitian Woman
by Paul Gauguin
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Gauguin"; inscribed along lower left edge, probably by Bernard, in pen and brown ink: "Reconnu de Paul Gauguin. Emile Bernard. 19"
Provenance
Mrs. Diego Suarez (aka Evelyn Marshall Field, 1888–1979), New York, by 1946–at least 1974 [New York 1946; Fezzi and Minervino 1974]; Jamee and Marshall Field, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Paul Gauguin," April 3-May 4, 1946, pp. 68-69, cat. 50 (ill.). Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, "Paul Gauguin," February 4-March 4, 1956, p. 22, cat. 36. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Gauguin and the Decorative Style," June–September, 1966, n.p. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," May 1-July 31, 1988, pp. 219-220, cat. 119 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988; traveled to Grand Palais, Paris, January 10-April 20, 1989. Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, June 25–Sept. 10, 2017, pp. 198 and 207, cat. 137; also Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, Oct. 9, 2017–Jan. 21, 2018.
Publications
Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), pp. 68–69, cat. 50 (ill.). John Rewald, Paul Gauguin (Abrams, 1954), p. 3, pl. 3 (ill.). Society of the Four Arts, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Society of the Four Arts, 1956), p. 22, cat. 36. Robert Goldwater, Paul Gauguin (Abrams, 1957), p. 64 (ill.). John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, Bittner Art Book (T. Yoseloff, 1958), pp. 33–34, no. 76 (ill.). Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, L’art français 1 (Beaux-Arts, 1964), p. 172, under cat. 435. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gauguin and the Decorative Style, exh. cat. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1966), n.pag. Paul C. Nicholls, Gauguin (Tudor, 1967), p. 28; fig. 51. Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin (P. Hamyln, 1970), title page (ill.); p. 34, pl. 71. Elda Fezzi and Fiorella Minervino, “Noa Noa” e il primo viaggio a Tahiti di Gauguin (Rizzoli, 1974), p. 83, no. 64 (ill.). Nicolas Wadley, Gauguin: 116 ouevres (SACELP, 1986), n.pag., fig. 56. National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Tokyo Shimbun, 1987), p. 92, fig. 41. 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), pp. 219–20, cat. 119 (ill.). Assja Kanto-Gukowskaja, Paul Gauguin: In den Museen der Sowjetunion, with Anna Barskaja and Marina Bessonowa (Aurora-Kunstverlag, 1989), p. 65 (ill.). Belinda Thomson, ed., Gauguin by Himself (Bullfinch, 1993), pp. 168, 307, fig. 130. Anna Barskaya, Paul Gauguin: Mysterious Affinities, with Asya Kanto-Gukovskaya and Marina Bessonova (Parkstone Aurora, 1995), pp. 84, 86 (ill.). Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Paul Gauguin: E l’avanguardia russa, exh. cat. (Artificio, 1995), p. 68 (ill.). “Gauguin_Cat. 42 Head of a Tahitian Woman,” in Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
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, with later additions 1894/95
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink, with green, blue, yellow and white gouache, over pen and brown ink and touches of graphite, on parchment
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 24.2 cm (12 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jamee and Marshall Field
- Accession no.
- 2021.336
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