Noa Noa (Fragrant, Fragrant), 1894, printed 1921

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series Title

Noa Noa Suite

Medium

woodcut on China paper

Dimensions

image: 35.5 × 20.5 cm (14 × 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 43 × 27 cm (16 15/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 13, State iii/iii (Eb)

Accession Number

1944.2.25.4

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 center: NOA NOA / P G O; 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

Exhibition History

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

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.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.