L'Univers est crée (The Creation of the Universe), 1894, printed 1921

Not on View

series Title

Noa Noa Suite

Medium

woodcut on China paper

Dimensions

image: 20.4 × 35.4 cm (8 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

sheet: 26 × 43.2 cm (10 1/4 × 17 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 18, State ii/ii (Eb)

Accession Number

1944.2.25.7

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, at lower left: L'Univers est crée; in block, at lower right: 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

1969: Gauguin and Exotic Art, University Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969, no. 15.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 100, repro.

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.