Inscription
lower right: P Gauguin 97
Provenance
Sold 30 October 1898 via George Daniel de Monfreid [1856-1929] to Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris;[1] sold November 1898 to Edgar Degas [1834-1917]; (Degas atelier sale I, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 26-27 March 1918, no. 47 as Tahiti, paysage, 93 x 61 cm. [dimensions reversed]); (Jos Hessel, Paris) and/or (Ambroise Vollard, Paris);[2] probably sold to Adolph Lewisohn [c. 1849-1938], New York, by 1921;[3] by inheritance to his son, Sam A. Lewisohn [1884-1951], New York; bequest 1951 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1898
- Exposition Gauguin, Galerie Vollard, Paris, 17 November - 10 December 1898.
- 1921
- Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1921, no. 54, repro.
- 1929
- First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1929, no. 48, repro.
- 1934
- The Development of Landscape Painting Through Twenty Centuries of European Art, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 1934, no. 22.
- 1935
- A Survey of French Painting, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1935, no. 14, repro.
- 1941
- French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1941, no. 53, repro.
- 1944
- Corot to Picasso, The American British Art Center, New York, 1944, no. 9, repro., as The Bathers (Women by a River).
- 1946
- A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1946, no. 33.
- 1951
- The Lewisohn Collection: A Catalogue ... before the dispersal of bequests to various museums and galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1951, no. 35.
- 1980
- Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, not in catalogue.
- 1986
- Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 7, repro.
- 1987
- Paul Gauguin, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Aichi Pregectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, 1987, no. 72, repro., dated 1893.
- 1988
- The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago; Grand Palais, Paris, 1988-1989, no. 224, repro.
- 1990
- Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 69, repro.
- 1992
- From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 68, repro.
- 1997
- The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, no. 487, repro., as Bathers (Tahitian Landscape).
- 2000
- The Year 1900: Art at the Crossroads, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2000, no. 58, repro.
- 2006
- Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2006-2007, no. 94, fig. 75.
- 2010
- Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-2011, no. 114, repro.
- 2011
- Gauguin / Polynesia, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; Seattle Art Museum, 2011-2012, no. 292, repro.
Bibliography
- 1928
- Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures. New York, 1928: 165, repro.
- 1964
- Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris, 1964: 240, no. 572, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 55.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 48, repro.
- 1972
- Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'ouevre peint de Gauguin. Milan, 1972: no. 393, repro.
- 1973
- Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1973: 573, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 146, repro.
- 1975
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: repro. 529.
- 1981
- Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Paris, 1981: no. 393, repro.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 524, no. 788, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 167, repro.
- 1988
- Cafritz, Robert C., Lawrence Gowing, and David Rosand. Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape. Washington, 1988: 234, repro.
- 1991
- Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 25, repro.
- 1997
- Dumas, Ann, et al. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997: no. 487, fig. 309, as Bathers (Tahitian Landscape).
- 1997
- Ives, Colta et al. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1997: no. 487.
- 2015
- Jakobi, Marianne. Gauguin, Signac: la genèse du titre contemporain. Paris, 2015: repros. 181 and 183.
- 2015
- Welten, Ruud. “Paul Gauguin and the Complexity of the Primitivist Gaze.” Journal of Art Historiography 12 (2015): 12.
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