Mahna no Varua Ino (The Demon Speaks) [verso]

1893-1894

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

Louis Roy

Printer, French, 1862 - 1907

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.4 x 12.2 cm (8 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.248.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 19, State iv/iv(D)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2010

  • Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate Modern, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-2011.

2014

  • Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, unnumbered catalogue.

2025

  • Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Austria, Parkes; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024-2025 (work only shown in Houston), no repro.

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.

2024

  • Loyrette, Henri, editor._ Gauguin's world : Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao_. Exh. cat. Canberra: National Gallery of Art, Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024: 262.

Markings

in block, at bottom: PGO MAHNA NO V[ARUA INO]; below image, at right, in brown ink in later hand: Jd 10 mon [?]

Wikidata ID

Q65364050

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