Maruru (Thank You), 1894, printed 1941

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on coated wove paper

Dimensions

image: 20.2 x 35.4 cm (7 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
block: 28.9 x 40.2 cm (11 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 22, State iii/iii (F)

Accession Number

2004.55.1

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Max Kahn (printer) American, born Russia, 1902-2005

Print and Drawing Club of The Art Institute of Chicago (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block, at lower right: MARURU PG O; verso: none

Marks and Labels

verso: stamped in brown ink at center: PRINTED IN 1941 FROM THE ORIGINAL / WOODBLOCK IN THE COLLECTION OF / THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FOR / THE PRINT AND DRAWING CLUB. [in rectangle]

Provenance

Mrs. Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Nef, Evelyn Stefansson

Bibliography

1927: Guérin, Marcel. L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.

1988: Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin: The Paintings of the First Voyage to Tahiti. New York and London, 1977:154-157