Parau No Te Varau Ino (left); Tahitian Legend (right), c. 1890/1895

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Medium

pen and brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on J. Whatman paper

Dimensions

overall: 25 x 33.9 cm (9 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.29

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Image Use

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Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris; sale, London, Sotheby's, April 24, 1963, no. 20; to Helen Serger Fine Arts; sale, London, Sotheby & Co., sold April 16, 1970, no. 49; Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Galerie Druet
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1969: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1969, starting with Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971; remained on long term loan to LACMA following 1983 show, & resumed with Leningrad, 1986.

Bibliography

1984: Robinson, Susan Barnes, ed. The French Impressionists in Southern California, Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in Public Collections. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 1984: 42.