Locusts and Ants: A Memory of Martinique (Les cigales et les fourmis: Souvenir de la Martinique)

1889, published after 1900

Paul Gauguin

Associated Names
Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

The image shows a group of people standing and seated. The individuals have discernible features typical of a sketch or print, with simplistic facial details. They wear long dresses or garments and appear to be carrying baskets on their heads. The background includes a tree, mountains or hills, and a body of water. The scene is rendered in monochrome and includes the artist's name, Paul Gauguin, and the title "Les Cigales et la fourmie."

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph (zinc) on imitation Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.1 x 26.2 cm (7 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.3 x 47.2 cm (12 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.98

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 5, State only state (B)

  • Series Title

    Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1993

  • Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters, Heckscher Museum, Huntington; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, 1993-1994, 174.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q65364068

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