Oviri (The Savage) [recto]

1894/1895

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in brown on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.4 × 12.2 cm (8 1/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 37 × 19 cm (14 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.248.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 35, State only state

Associated Artworks

Mahna no Varua Ino (The Demon Speaks) [verso]

Paul Gauguin, Louis Roy

1893

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1954

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954-1955, no cat.

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. 47.

1969

  • Gauguin and Exotic Art, University Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969, no. 23.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, no. 213b.

2010

  • Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate Modern, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-2011, no. 110, repro, p. 172.

2014

  • Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, no. 103.

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.

Inscriptions

recto: in black ink at bottom center: Gauguin

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65364046

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