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image of Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)
Paul Gauguin (artist)
French, 1848 - 1903
Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), 1892
oil on canvas
Overall: 67.9 x 91.5 cm (26 3/4 x 36 in.) framed: 92.4 x 114.9 x 10.1 cm (36 3/8 x 45 1/4 x 4 in.)
Chester Dale Collection
1963.10.149
On View
From the Tour: Paul Gauguin
Object 6 of 8

1925Rotonchamp, Jean. Paul Gauguin 1848-1903. Paris, 1925:137
1928"New York Collector Buys Gauguin Canvas," Chicago New Post July 20, 1928.
1929Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 64, repro.
1936Bulliet, C. J. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York, 1936: repro. no. 75.
1939Slocombe, George. Rebels of Art, Manet to Matisse. New York, 1939:plate 22.
1942French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 75, repro.
1944French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 75, repro.
1950Lewandowski, Herbert. Paul Gauguin, oder Die Flucht vor der Zivilisation. Bern, 1950:349.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 168, color repro.
1953French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 83, repro.
1956Wildenstein, Georges, et. al. "Oeuvres appartenant au cycle 'D'ou venons-nou? Qui sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?'," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, vol. 47 (January-April 1956):141, fig. 7.
1956Wildenstein, Georges, et. al. "Traduction et interprétation des titres en langue Tahitienne inscrits sur les oeuvres Océaniennes de Paul Gauguin," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, vol. 47 (January-April 1956):141, fig. 7.
1957Goldwater, Robert. Paul Gauguin. New York, 1957: 116, repro.
1959Evans, Grose. French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Two in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 38, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 19.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 276, repro., as Fatata te Miti.
1964Wildenstein 1964, no. 463.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 55
1965Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 124, repro.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:472, color repro.
1967Danielsson, Bengt. "Gauguin's Tahitian Titles," The Burlington Magazine CIX no. 769 (April 1967):230.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 48, repro.
1968Cachin, Françoise. Gauguin. Paris, 1968:245, repro.
1971Clay, Jean, ed. L'impressionnisme. Paris, 1971: 170, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 146, repro.
1977Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin: The Paintings of the First Voyage to Tahiti. New York and London, 1977:154-157
1980Liere, Eldon N. van, "Solutions and Dissolutions: The Bather in Nineteenth-Century French Painting," Arts Magazine 54 no 9 (May 1980): 112, repro.
1981Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Paris, 1981:no. 291, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 522, no. 784, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 168, repro.
1988NGA Gauguin 1988, 152.
1992Vance, Peggy. Gauguin. London, 1992:114, repro.
1992Parsons, Thomas and Iain Gale, Post-Impressionism: The Rise of Modern Art. London, 1992:188, repro.
1993Kapas, Martha, ed., The Post-Impressionists: A Retrospective. New York, 1993:pl. 65
1993Thomson, Belinda, ed. Gauguin by Himself. New York, 1993:no. 187, repro.
1995Halpine, Susana M. "An Investigation of Artists' Materials Using Amino Acid Analysis: Introduction of the One-Hour Extraction Method." Studies in the History of Art 51 (1995): 53-55, repro. no. 15.
1998Zuffi, Stefano and Francesca Castira, La peinture moderne des impressionnistes aux avant-gardes. Paris, 1998:167-168. repro.

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