Title Page for "Le Sourire" (Titre du Sourire), 1899, printed 1921

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series Title

Paul Gauguin: 10 Traesnit (Pola Gauguin Portfolio)

Medium

woodcut on China paper

Dimensions

image: 10.1 × 18.3 cm (4 × 7 3/16 in.)

sheet: 26.7 × 42.6 cm (10 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 58, State only state (Db)

Accession Number

1944.2.25.2

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Pola Gauguin (printer) Danish, born France, 1883-1961

Christian Cato (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block, in image, at upper left: Le Sourire; in block, in image, at lower left: P Gauguin; above image, at left, in graphite: no 55; below image, at left, in graphite: Paul Gauguin fait; below image, at right, in graphite: Pola Gauguin imp.; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1927: Guérin, Marcel. L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.

1988: Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints. Berne: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.