Tahitian Heads

c. 1891/1893

Paul Gauguin

Associated Names
Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

The image shows three sketches of individuals, each depicted from shoulders up. The top left figure has voluminous hair with a curling strand. The top right figure has closely styled hair. The lower figure has dark, wide hair. The sketches focus on outlines, basic shading, and lack clothing or jewelry details. The background is plain paper.

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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 Number

    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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