Artworks · Paul Gauguin

Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Nov. 1899

1899 · Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper

Printed monogram: Diam.: 3.2 cm (1 5/16 in.); Full sheet: 39.7 × 51.3 cm (15 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.); Folded sheet: 39.7 × 25.6 cm (15 11/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Title block: 2.4 × 9.4 cm (1 × 3 3/4 in.); Headpiece: 10.5 × 18.7 cm (4 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

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Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Nov. 1899

1899 · Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper

397 × 513 mm (full sheet); 397 × 256 mm (folded sheet); 24 × 94 mm (title block), 105 × 187 mm (headpiece)

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Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Aug. 21, 1899

1899 · Mimeograph in brownish-black ink with touches of pink watercolor, and wood-block print in ocher ink, on cream wove paper

Printed monogram: Diam.: 3.2 cm (1 5/16 in.); Full sheet: 38.3 × 49.7 cm (15 1/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Folded sheet: 38.3 × 25 cm (15 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

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Fox, Busts of Two Women, and a Rabbit, headpiece for Le sourire

1899 · Wood-block print in black on thin, ivory Japanese paper

Image: 11.7 × 18.6 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 14.9 × 23 cm (5 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

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Bust of a Nude Woman and Three-Quarter Figure of a Man with a White Cap in Profile, Third Small Figure at Far Right, headpiece for Le sourire

1899 · Wood-block print in black ink on cream wove paper

Image: 10.3 × 18.2 cm (4 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 11.9 × 26 cm (4 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Three People, a Mask, a Fox, and a Bird, headpiece for Le sourire

1899 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper

Image: 9 × 18.5 cm (3 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 9.4 × 18.6 cm (3 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

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A Horse and Birds, headpiece for Le sourire

1899 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper

Image: 14.1 × 22.1 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 15.3 × 23 cm (6 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

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Change of Residence, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1899 · Second-state impression laid down on first-state impression Wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in ocher ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso)

Image: 16.4 × 30.1 cm (6 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.); Primary/secondary support: 16.5 × 30.1 cm (6 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)

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Three People, a Mask, a Fox and a Bird, headpiece forLe sourire

1899 · Wood-block print in black ink on ivory China paper

Image: 10.3 × 18.4 cm (4 1/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 26.8 × 42.5 cm (10 9/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

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Le Sourire (The Smile)

1899 · Woodcut

composition: 4 x 7 3/16" (10.2 x 18.3 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 x 16 5/8" (27.5 x 42.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters)

1898 · oil on canvas

overall: 74 × 95.3 cm (29 1/8 × 37 1/2 in.) framed: 90.8 × 111.4 × 7.62 cm (35 3/4 × 43 7/8 × 3 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Be in Love and You will be Happy (Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses)

1898 · woodcut in light brown and black on chine collé

image: 16 × 27.3 cm (6 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Rape of Europa (L'enlevement d'Europe)

1898 · woodcut on chine collé, with a fragment of another print on back of mount

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The Ox Cart (Le char a boeufs)

1898 · woodcut on Japan paper

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Te Arii Vahine (Lady of Royal Blood)

1898 · woodcut on japan paper, adhered along top and bottom edges to mount

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Eve

1898 · woodcut on Japan paper

sheet: 30.4 × 22.7 cm (11 15/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Human Misery (Misères humaines)

1898 · woodcut on Japan paper, perimeter mounted

image: 19.3 x 29.1 cm (7 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 24.9 x 34 cm (9 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Te Atua (The Gods) Small Plate

1898 · two laminated woodcuts on Japanese paper, double-mounted on wove paper

image (woodcut): 22.5 × 20.1 cm (8 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 24.5 × 22.2 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 50.4 × 37.8 cm (19 13/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

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Wayside Shrine in Brittany (Le calvaire Breton)

1898 · woodcut on very thin Japan paper

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Faa Iheihe

1898 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 540 x 1695 mm frame: 700 x 1855 x 95 mm

Tate

Women, Animals, and Foliage, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin laid ivory Japanese paper, laid down on thin wove white Japanese paper

Image: 16.3 × 30.5 cm (6 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Primary support: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 23.7 × 31.8 cm (9 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)

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Interior of a Tahitian Hut, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper

Image: 11.5 × 21 cm (4 9/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 14 × 22.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

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Te atua (The God), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper

Image: 24.2 × 22.6 cm (9 9/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 22.6 cm (10 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

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Study of Tahitian Heads

1898 · Watercolor and pastel monotype from a paper matrix, with pastel, on cream Japanese paper, laid down on cream 4-ply mat board

237 × 297 mm (primary support), 292 × 355 mm (secondary support)

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Te arii vahine—opoi (Woman with Mangos—Tired), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, partially laid down on white Japanese paper

Image: 16.5 × 30.5 cm (6 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.); Image with printed edge of block, lower left: 17.1 × 30.5 cm (6 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.); Primary/secondary support: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 1/16 in.)

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Tahitian Carrying Bananas, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper

Image: 16.2 × 28.5 cm (6 7/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.1 × 30.4 cm (8 5/16 × 12 in.)

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Eve, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)

Image: 28.7 × 21.5 cm (11 5/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 22.8 cm (12 3/16 × 9 in.)

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Interior of a Tahitian Hut, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Image: 11.3 × 21.4 cm (4 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 15.3 × 22.8 cm (6 1/16 × 9 in.); Secondary support: 15.4 × 22.9 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

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At the Black Rocks, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on moderately thick cream wove paper

Image: 10.3 × 18.6 cm (4 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 10.6 × 19.1 cm (4 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

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At the Black Rocks, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on cream wove paper

Image: 10.3 × 18.5 cm (4 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12.7 × 23.8 cm (5 × 9 3/8 in.)

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Women, Animals, and Foliage, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, partially laid down on thin white Japanese paper

Image: 16.3 × 30.5 cm (6 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 24.2 × 33.5 cm (9 9/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

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Wayside Shrine in Brittany, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, tipped on thin white Japanese paper

Image: 15.2 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.); Primary support: 15.2 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 15.3 × 22.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

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Buddha, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper perimeter mounted on white Japanese paper

Image: 29.7 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.); Primary support: 30.4 × 22.7 cm (12 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 40.5 × 32.9 cm (16 × 13 in.)

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Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on white Japanese paper

Image: 19.3 × 29.8 cm (7 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Primary support: 22.7 × 30.4 cm (8 15/16 × 12 in.); Secondary support: 22.7 × 30.4 cm (8 15/16 × 12 in.)

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Te atua (The God), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink, with yellow ocher ink offset, on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid face down on ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in brownish-black ink on ivory wove paper (verso)

Image: 24.3 × 22.2 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 22.2 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 24.3 × 22.2 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

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Plate with the Head of a Horned Devil, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print, printed twice in black over pale yellow ocher ink, on thin ivory Japanese paper, partially laid down on white two-ply mat board

Image: 15.4 × 29.5 cm (6 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet/secondary support: 19.2 × 29.9 cm (7 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

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Te atua (The God), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Second-state impression laid down on first-state impression Wood-block print of second state in black ink on lunette-shaped, thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in brownish-black ink on lunette-shaped ivory wove paper

Image/primary/secondary support: 23.1 × 20.2 cm (9 1/8 × 8 in.)

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Tahitian Carrying Bananas, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, tipped on thin white Japanese paper

Image: 16.1 × 27.5 cm (6 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Primary support: 18.3 × 27.6 cm (7 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 18.6 × 27.6 cm (7 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

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The Rape of Europa, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin, ivory Japanese paper, laid face down on ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in yellow ocher ink on ivory wove paper (verso)

Image/primary/secondary support: 23.1 × 20.5 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

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The Ox Cart, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

1898 · Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on medium-weight, fibrous, off-white Japanese paper

Image: 19.5 × 30.5 cm (7 11/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 30.7 cm (9 × 12 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 30 × 31 cm (11 13/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

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The Rape of Europa (L'Enlèvement d'Europe)

1898 · Woodcut

composition (irreg.): 9 9/16 x 9" (24.3 x 22.9 cm); sheet (irreg.): 14 x 16 11/16" (35.5 x 42.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Human Misery (Misères humaines)

1898 · Woodcut

composition (irreg.): 7 9/16 x 11 3/4" (19.2 x 29.9 cm); sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 3/4" (22.6 x 29.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Bathers

1897 · oil on canvas

overall: 60.4 x 93.4 cm (23 3/4 x 36 3/4 in.) framed: 82 x 114.3 x 7.9 cm (32 5/16 x 45 x 3 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)

1897 · Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper

24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

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Maoris and Animals

1896 · Wood-block print in yellow ocher ink with gray-blue watercolor and touches of red watercolor on cream wove notebook paper ruled in blue

Image: 9.1 × 10.6 cm (3 5/8 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 10.6 × 13.3 cm (4 3/16 × 5 1/4 in.)

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Memory of Meijer de Haan

1896 · Wood-block print printed twice in black and brown ink, with dry brush and gray and ocher watercolor, on cream Japanese paper

Image/sheet: 10.6 × 8.1 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

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Young Maoris

1896 · Wood-block print printed twice in yellow ocher and black ink, on cream wove notebook paper ruled in blue

Image/sheet: 8.8 × 10.7 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)

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Two Maoris

1896 · Wood-block print printed twice in ocher and black ink, with red-brown watercolor on brown laid Japanese paper

Image: 8 × 10.5 cm (3 3/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 8.2 × 10.8 cm (3 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.)

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