Two Marquesans [recto]

c. 1902

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    traced monotype in warm black retouched slightly with an olive pigment

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.8 x 34.5 cm (18 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1797.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Field 1973, no. 88

Associated Artworks

Two Marquesans [verso]

Paul Gauguin

1902

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1955

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

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. 56, repro.

1959

  • Gauguin, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1959, no. 196.

1960

  • Paul Gauguin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1960, no. 137, repro.

1966

  • Gauguin and the Decorative Style, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, not in catalogue.

1973

  • Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, no. 88, repro.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, no. 270.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

2003

  • Gauguin-Tahiti: L'atelier des tropiques, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003-2004, no. 179 (Eng. cat. no. P.257)(exh. in Paris only).

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

2014

  • Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, no. 165.

Bibliography

1973

  • Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin Monotypes. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988: no. 270 (as "Two Heads").

Wikidata ID

Q65511478

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