Mahana Atua (Day of the Gods) [recto]

1894

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut block

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    block: 18 × 20 × 2.54 cm (7 1/16 × 7 7/8 × 1 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1726.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Guérin 1927, no. 43

Associated Artworks

Two Title Pages for "Le Sourire" (Les deux titres du Sourire) [verso]

Paul Gauguin

1899

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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. 54.

  • Loan Exhibition. Gauguin. For the benefit of the Citizens' Committee fo Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1956, no. 97.

1996

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

2011

  • Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011.

2017

  • Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, The Art Institute of Chicago; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2017-2018.

2025

  • Gauguin in the World, National Gallery of Austrialia, 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.

2024

  • Loyrette, Henri, editor._Gauguin's World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. Exh. cat. Canberra, National Gallery of Art, Houstion: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024: 271.

Wikidata ID

Q63570727

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