Gauguin Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection: Selections from Breton Sketchbook No. 16

May 16 – November 7, 1993
West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries

Paul Gauguin, *Monkey and Cottage; Little Breton Boy* [recto], 1884-1888, graphite and crayon on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.32.a

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 36 drawings were selected from Paul Gauguin's Breton Sketchbook No. 16, which he used during visits to Copenhagen and Brittany between 1884 and 1888. These works were shown as part of a continuous series of changing exhibitions highlighting drawings from the Armand Hammer collection.

Organization: Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery, coordinated the exhibition.

Gauguin, Paul: French, 1848 - 1903