Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil Speaks), 1894, printed 1921

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series Title

Noa Noa Suite

Medium

woodcut on China paper

Dimensions

image: 20.2 × 35.4 cm (7 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

sheet: 27.1 × 42.4 cm (10 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 19, State iv/iv (Eb)

Accession Number

1944.2.25.9

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: P G O MAHNA NO VARUA NO; 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

1988: The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, no. 175g. (incorrect accession number in 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.