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Paul Gauguin

Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil Speaks), 1894

Not on View

series Title

Noa Noa Suite

Medium

color woodcut on Japan paper

Dimensions

image: 20.2 × 35.5 cm (7 15/16 × 14 in.)

sheet: 24.9 × 39.9 cm (9 13/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 19, State iv/iv (D)

Accession Number

1950.17.81

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Louis Roy (printer) French, 1862 - 1907

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Inscription

recto: in block, at lower left: PGO MAHNA NO VARUA INO; at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: 5; at lower left, in graphite, later hand: 2

Marks and Labels

recto: Ottokar Mascha (Lugt 1904) and Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 4436); verso: Ottokar Mascha (Lugt 1904) annotated in graphite: 786/e

Provenance

Ottokar Mascha (1852-1929, Vienna [Lugt 1904]; Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne [Lugt 4436]

Associated Names

Mascha, Ottokar
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stinnes, Heinrich

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. 57.

1988: The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, no. 175f.

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.

1988: The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988: no. 175f.