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Polynesian Woman with Children

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The three figures in this work have never been identified. Their familial pose and other details, such as the woman’s gold ring and the red mark on the girl’s hand, invite speculation as to their relationship to each other and to the artist. Technical analysis has revealed that Paul Gauguin reworked the position of the woman’s hands to align diagonally with those of the young girl standing behind her. Together, they form an upward axis reinforced by the cat, also a later addition.

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Mediumoil paint (paint)
Dimensions74 × 97 Cm
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portraitsportraits: child subjectpink (color)woman with childrenwomanblue (color)portraits: multiple subjectsportraitcatswomenchildrenCentury of Progressworld's fairsChicago World's Fairs
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Henri Loyrette, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, exh. cat.

Henri Loyrette, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, exh. cat. (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2024), 39, 40 (ill.), 273.
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Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, June 29–Oct. 7, 2024, no cat. no., pp. 40; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 3, 2024–Feb. 16, 2025.

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, June 29–Oct. 7, 2024, no cat. no., pp. 40; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 3, 2024–Feb. 16, 2025.
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Basel, Foundation Beyler, Paul Gauguin, February 8–June 28, 2015, pp. 154–155.

Basel, Foundation Beyler, Paul Gauguin, February 8–June 28, 2015, pp. 154–155.
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Raphaël Bouvier and Martin Schwander, eds. Pail Gauguin, exh. cat.

Raphaël Bouvier and Martin Schwander, eds. Pail Gauguin, exh. cat. (Basel: Foundation Beyeler, 2015), 154–155 (color ill.), 221.
Wed
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exhibition

Kunsthaus Zurich, German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blue Rider <other title:Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky>, February 7-May 11, 2014; Los Angeles County Museum of Art...

Kunsthaus Zurich, German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blue Rider , February 7-May 11, 2014; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8-September 14, 2014; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6, 2014-January 25, 2015 [Los Angeles and Montreal only].
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Joseph R. Rishel, in Susan Alyson Stein and Asher Ethan Miller, eds., Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, exh. cat.

Joseph R. Rishel, in Susan Alyson Stein and Asher Ethan Miller, eds., Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 189, under no. 36.
Wed
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Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago

Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 151 (ill.), no. 73; revised edition (Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2Timothy O. Benson, Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky. (Copyright 2014 Museum Associates/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Prestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York) Published in conjunction with the exhibition Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky. Plate 43/ cat. 64.
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exhibition

Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 73.

Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 73.
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Britt Salvesen, Gauguin

Britt Salvesen, Gauguin (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2001), pp. 68, 111, pl. 31, no. 31.
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exhibition

Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12–March 29, 1959, no. 66; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21–May 31, 1959.

Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12–March 29, 1959, no. 66; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21–May 31, 1959.
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Wiebe A. White, Paintings by Paul Gauguin Owned in the United States of America and The Hawaiian Islands

Wiebe A. White, Paintings by Paul Gauguin Owned in the United States of America and The Hawaiian Islands (unpub. ms., Ryerson Library, 1936), p. 60.
Wed
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exhibition

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 306.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 306.
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“The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7

“The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (1933), p. 116.
Wed
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exhibition

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 362.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 362.
Wed
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“Chicago Show to Present French Modern Classics,” Art News 31, 34

“Chicago Show to Present French Modern Classics,” Art News 31, 34 (1933), p. 4.
Wed
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exhibition

The Art Gallery of Toronto, Modern French Painting from Manet to Matisse, January 1933, no. 18.

The Art Gallery of Toronto, Modern French Painting from Manet to Matisse, January 1933, no. 18.
Wed
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Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 154.
Wed
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“Museum News: Acquisitions and Activities of the Art Centers,” Parnassus 4, 7

“Museum News: Acquisitions and Activities of the Art Centers,” Parnassus 4, 7 (1932), p. 14 (ill.).
Wed
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Feb
exhibition

Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Nineteenth Century French Art, November 1–13, 1932, no. 26.

Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Nineteenth Century French Art, November 1–13, 1932, no. 26.
Wed
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R. H. Wilenski, French Painting, 2nd ed.

R. H. Wilenski, French Painting, 2nd ed. (Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, Inc., 1931), p. 289; revised editions (Boston: Hale, Cushman & Inc., 1936); (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973).
Wed
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Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 2nd ed.

Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), pp. 14–15 (ill.), 58; revised edition (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946).
Wed
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exhibition

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 49.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 49.
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Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, 6

Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, 6 (1928), p. 233.
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Ninth Annual Report

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Ninth Annual Report (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), p. 20, (ill.).
Wed
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“Gauguin, Cat. 122, Polynesian Woman with Children

“Gauguin, Cat. 122, Polynesian Woman with Children (1927.460),” in Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), https://publications.artic.edu/gauguin/reader/gauguinart/section/140163.
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R. M. Fishkin, “A Late Gauguin,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21, 6

R. M. Fishkin, “A Late Gauguin,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21, 6 (1927), pp. 74–75 (ill.).
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purchased by Frederic C....

purchased by Frederic C. Bartlett, Chicago, February 1927 from Berlin 1927 [according to a letter from Frederic C. Bartlett to Heinrich Thannhauser dated May 21, 1927, Art Institute archives, copy in curatorial file]
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exhibition

Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 103.

Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 103.
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R. M. Fishkin, “Gauguin Given to Art Institute,” Art News 25, 40

R. M. Fishkin, “Gauguin Given to Art Institute,” Art News 25, 40 (1927), p. 7.
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given to the Art Institute, 1927.

given to the Art Institute, 1927.
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Ambroise Vollard [according to Meyer-Riefstahl 1910-1911, it was lent by him to Dresden 1910 and Munich 1910]....

Ambroise Vollard [according to Meyer-Riefstahl 1910-1911, it was lent by him to Dresden 1910 and Munich 1910]. Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, by 1927 [included in Berlin 1927]
Wed
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Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1910, no cat.; travelled to Dresden, Arnold Kunst Salon, 1910.

Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1910, no cat.; travelled to Dresden, Arnold Kunst Salon, 1910.
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Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl, “Paul Gauguin,” Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 27

Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl, “Paul Gauguin,” Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 27 (1910–1911), p. 115 (ill.).
Tue
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Inge Fiedler and Michael A. Bayard, “Emerald Green and Scheele’s Green,” in Elisabeth West FitzHugh, ed. Artists’ Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, vol. 3

Inge Fiedler and Michael A. Bayard, “Emerald Green and Scheele’s Green,” in Elisabeth West FitzHugh, ed. Artists’ Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, vol. 3 (Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997), p. 264.
Thu
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exhibition

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, September 17–December 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, January 10–April 20, 1989 (Chicago only...

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, September 17–December 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, January 10–April 20, 1989 (Chicago only, supplement no. 9).
Thu
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Françoise Cachin, Gauguin

Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (Paris: Flammarion, 1988), p. 296; translated (Paris: Flammarion, 1990).
Wed
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Richard R. Brettell, Post–Impressionists

Richard R. Brettell, Post–Impressionists (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New York: H. N. Abrams, 1987), pp. 78 (ill.), 79.
Wed
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Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey, eds., Gauguin: A Retrospective

Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey, eds., Gauguin: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1987), p. 287 (ill.).
Tue
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‘The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2

‘The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 222, 228 (ill.), no. 7.
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Lee van Dowski, Die Wahrheit über Gauguin

Lee van Dowski, Die Wahrheit über Gauguin (Darmstadt: J. G. Bläschke, 1973), p. 275, no. 373a.
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G. M. Sugana, L’opera completa di Gauguin

G. M. Sugana, L’opera completa di Gauguin (Milan: Rizzoli, 1972), pp. 111 (ill.), 113, no. 423.
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George Wildenstein, Gauguin, vol. 1

George Wildenstein, Gauguin, vol. 1(Paris: Les Beaux-arts, 1964), p. 253 (ill.), no. 595.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 171.
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