Profile of a Boy and Self-Portrait [recto]

1884/1886

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

Paul Gauguin

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.9 x 11.6 cm (6 5/8 x 4 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.217.37.a

Associated Artworks

Heads of a Boy and a Man (Self-Portrait?) [verso]

Paul Gauguin

1884

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri Mahaut, Cherbourg, purchased before World War I; Private Collection, USA; Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1967; gift to NGA 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988, p. XV-XVI (recto only).

Bibliography

2000

  • Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech and Newton, H. Travers Jr. Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin. Cambridge, 2000: 50, fig. 17.

Inscriptions

lower center in pen and brown ink: Gauguin / par lui meme

Wikidata ID

Q64618969

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