Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)

1898-1899

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in light brown and black on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 16 × 27.3 cm (6 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.71

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 55, State ii/ii (b)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Henri M. Petiet, Paris); sold May 15, 1950 to Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; gift to NGA 1950.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 58.

  • Loan Exhibition. Gauguin. For the benefit of the Citizens' Committee fo Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1956, no. 91.

1969

  • Gauguin and Exotic Art, University Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969, no. 26.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Grand Palais, Paris, 1988-1989, no. 241a.

Bibliography

1927

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

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988: no. 241a.

  • Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints. Berne: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65363966

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