Noa Noa (Fragrant, Fragrant)

1894, printed 1921

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

Pola Gauguin

Printer, Danish, born France, 1883-1961

Christian Cato

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.5 × 20.5 cm (14 × 8 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 43 × 27 cm (16 15/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1944.2.25.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 13, State iii/iii (Eb)

Associated Artworks

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Paul Gauguin: 10 Traesnit (Pola Gauguin Portfolio)

Paul Gauguin, Pola Gauguin, Christian Cato

1894

Manao Tupapau (She is Haunted by a Spirit)

Paul Gauguin, Pola Gauguin, Christian Cato

1894

L'Univers est crée (The Creation of the Universe)

Paul Gauguin, Pola Gauguin, Christian Cato

1894


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2011

  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered 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.

2010

  • Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

Inscriptions

recto: in block, in image, at upper center: NOA NOA / P G O; above image, at left, in graphite: no 55; below image, at left, in graphite: Paul Gauguin fait; below image, at right, in graphite: Pola Gauguin imp.; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65024243


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