Tahitian Heads

c. 1891/1893

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.5 x 10.8 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Warner Muensterberger, New York; Robert Q. Lewis, Los Angeles; Armand Hammer Collection, 1968; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1969, starting with Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

Bibliography

1954

  • Bernard Dorival, ed., Paul Gauguin, carnet de Tahiti, Paris, 1954: no. 85.

1970

  • Pickvance, Ronald. Drawings of Gauguin, London, 1970: pp.10, 19 (references to the Tahiti sketchbook only).

1972

  • Wildenstein, Daniel and Raymond Cogniat. Paul Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p.88.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in blue pencil: 56; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 107

Wikidata ID

Q64618955

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