Mahana Atua (Day of the Gods), 1894, printed 1921

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series Title

Paul Gauguin: 10 Traesnit (Pola Gauguin Portfolio)

Medium

woodcut on China paper

Dimensions

image: 18.2 × 20.3 cm (7 3/16 × 8 in.)

sheet: 26.3 × 42.8 cm (10 3/8 × 16 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 31, State ii/ii (Cb)

Accession Number

1943.3.4606

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, in image, at lower left: P G O; in block, in image, at lower right: Mahana Atua; above image, at left, in graphite: no 71; below image, at left, in graphite: Paul Gauguin fait; below image, at right, in graphite: Pola Gauguin imp.; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: The Feast of the Gods; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

1950: Gauguin in Tahiti, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1950.

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. 53.

1996: The Collection Reviewed: Hina and Her Attendants by Paul Gauguin, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 1996-1997, no 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.