Nave Nave Fenua (Delightful Land)

1894/1895

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.5 × 20.6 cm (14 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.6 × 25.2 cm (14 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.12.53

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 15, State v/vi

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1955

  • The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

1962

  • A Generation of Draughtsmen, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1962, no. 78.

1969

  • Gauguin and Exotic Art, University Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969.

1973

  • Dimensions of Polynesia, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1973, no. XII.15.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, no. 172c.

2014

  • Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, no. 54.

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.

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988: no. 172c.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 585-587; fig.10.1, 586.

Wikidata ID

Q65081665

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