Title Page for "Le Sourire" (Titre du Sourire)

1899

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.1 × 18.6 cm (4 3/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.9 × 22.8 cm (5 7/8 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4611

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 69, State iii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

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

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.

Inscriptions

recto: in image, in block: TAITI / Le Sourire; in image, in black ink, at lower left: P G; in image, in black ink, at lower right: No. 2; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64960964


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