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Paul Gauguin

Manao Tupapau (She is Haunted by a Spirit), 1894

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series Title

Noa Noa Suite

Medium

color woodcut on Japan paper

Dimensions

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

sheet: 25 × 39.8 cm (9 13/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 20, State iv/iv (D)

Accession Number

1950.17.82

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Louis Roy (printer) French, 1862 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block at upper left: Manao tupapau; in block at lower left: PGO; verso: none

Marks and Labels

recto: Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 4436) and Ottokar Mascha (Lugt 1904); verso: Ottokar Mascha (Lugt 1904), annotated in graphite 768/o

Provenance

Ottokar Mascha (1852-1929, Vienna [Lugt 1904]; Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne [Lugt 4436]

Associated Names

Mascha, Ottokar
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stinnes, Heinrich

Exhibition History

1954: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954-1955, no cat.

1956: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL; and The Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1956, no. 61.

1960: Artist-Writers: Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1960.

1962: Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1967: Selection of Post-Impressionist and Expressionist Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967, no cat.

1969: Gauguin and Exotic Art, University Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969, no. 12.

1975: Death, Love, and the Maiden, University of Pittsburgh, 1975, no. 176.

2025: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024-2025 (work only shown in Houston), no 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.

2024: Loyrette, Henri, editor. Gauguin's world : Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. Exh. cat. Canberra: National Gallery of Art, Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024: 262.