Artworks · Paul Gauguin

The Laundresses, from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper

Image: 21.3 × 26.4 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Plate, approx: 22.1 × 29 cm (8 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 64.9 cm (19 11/16 × 25 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les cigales et les fourmis (The Grasshoppers and the Ants), from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper

Image: 21.6 × 26.1 cm (8 9/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Plate, approx: 21.9 × 29.3 cm (8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 64.9 cm (19 5/8 × 25 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper

Image: 19.4 × 21 cm (7 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate, approx: 21.6 × 29 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 49.9 × 64.9 cm (19 11/16 × 25 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les drames de la mer (Dramas of the Sea), from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper

Image: 17.9 × 27.4 cm (7 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.); Plate, approx: 19.7 × 29.2 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 50 × 64.9 cm (19 11/16 × 25 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on ivory wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum)

Image: 19.4 × 21 cm (7 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 47.1 cm (12 11/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite

1889 · Zincograph in black on ivory wove paper (imitation Japanese vellum)

Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 44.1 × 33.1 cm (17 3/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Grasshoppers and the Ants: A Souvenir of Martinique, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 7/8 in. (34 × 48 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bretonnes à la Barrière, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph printed on yellow paper

Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16 × 21.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Drama of the Sea, Brittany, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

6 9/16 x 8 7/8 in. (16.7 x 22.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)

1889 · Zincograph, colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio, trimmed)

Sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Joys of Brittany, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

7 15/16 x 9 1/2 in. (20.2 x 24.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Washerwomen, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

Image: 8 3/16 x 10 1/4in. (20.8 x 26.1cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Martinique Pastorals, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on yellow wove paper; first edition

Image: 6 15/16 × 8 3/4 in. (17.6 × 22.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Old Women of Arles, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

Image: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (19.1 × 21 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Human Misery, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph printed in brown ink on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

Image: 11 1/16 × 9 in. (28.1 × 22.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bathers in Brittany, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

1889 · Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

9 3/16 x 7 7/8 in. (23.3 x 20.0 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Meijer de Haan

1889 · Oil on wood

31 3/8 x 20 3/8" (79.6 x 51.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Tragedies of the Sea, Brittany (Les Drames de la mer Bretagne)

1889 · Lithograph

composition: 6 3/4 x 8 15/16" (17.1 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 13 x 15 3/8" (33 x 39.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pastoral in Martinique (Pastorales Martinique)

1889 · Zincograph

composition: 7 5/16 x 8 13/16" (18.5 x 22.4 cm); sheet: 12 x 13 1/2" (30.5 x 34.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Grasshoppers and Ants: A Memory of Martinique (Les Cigales et les fourmis. Souvenir de la Martinique)

1889 · Zincograph

composition: 8 3/16 x 10 5/16" (20.8 x 26.2 cm); sheet: 12 1/2 x 14 11/16" (31.8 x 37.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of Meijer de Haan

1889 · Watercolor and pencil on paper

6 3/8 x 4 1/2" (16.2 x 11.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)

1889 · oil on fabric

Seated Nude Seen from Above

1888 · pastel on yellow paper

overall: 61.6 x 50.5 cm (24 1/4 x 19 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Landscape at Pont-Aven

1888 · brush and black ink on brown textured wove paper

overall: 31.9 x 44.4 cm (12 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière

1888 · oil on canvas

overall: 46.5 x 38.6 cm (18 5/16 x 15 3/16 in.) framed: 66 x 58.7 x 8.2 cm (26 x 23 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven

1888 · oil on canvas

overall: 73 x 92.7 cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/2 in.) framed: 86.7 x 106 x 3.5 cm (34 1/8 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Brittany Landscape

1888 · oil on canvas

overall: 71.1 x 89.5 cm (28 x 35 1/4 in.) framed: 91.4 x 115.6 cm (36 x 45 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Arlésiennes (Mistral)

1888 · Oil on jute canvas

73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Earthly Paradise

1888 · Wood with paint, glass and metal

101 × 120 × 60.5 cm (39 3/4 × 47 1/4 × 23 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hail Mary (Ia Orana Maria)

1888 · Fabricated charcoal, red chalk, and white pastel on formerly blue wove paper, mounted on millboard with strips of rose-colored wove paper along two edges

23 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (59.7 x 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with Three Puppies

1888 · Oil on wood

36 1/8 x 24 5/8" (91.8 x 62.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Arlésiennes (Mistral)

1888 · Oil on jute canvas

73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Madame Alexandre Kohler

1887 · oil on linen

overall: 46.3 x 38 cm (18 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.) framed: 61.6 x 52.7 cm (24 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study of a Tree. Verso: Portrait Study of a Man (?Paul Gauguin)

1887 · Chalk and gouache on paper. Verso: chalk on paper

support: 203 x 267 mm

Tate

Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso)

1887 · Black fabricated chalk with watercolor, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to light gray (recto); black fabricated chalk, with pen and brown ink, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to bluish-gray (verso) (removed from a sketchbook)

26.9 × 20.4 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Tahitian Women in a Landscape

1887 · Monotype matrix in watercolor and gouache, with brush and green ink, over traces of graphite, on cream Japanese paper, laid down on tan wove paper (partially removed)

32.2 × 23.8 cm (12 11/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vase in the Form of a Tropical Plant with Bird and Deity

1887 · Stoneware painted with slip and gold

21.5 × 17 × 12 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Breton Gleaner

1886 · pastel on laid paper, squared in blue pastel

overall: 46 x 37.8 cm (18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Breton Bather

1886 · Charcoal and pastel, with touches of brush and brown ink, on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan), partially outlined in graphite and squared in black fabricated chalk, with yellow paint residue on verso

58.5 × 35 cm (23 1/16 × 13 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Breton Woman

1886 · Black fabricated chalk with pastel on ivory laid paper

32.9 × 48.3 cm (13 × 19 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Peonies

1884 · oil on canvas

overall: 59.7 x 73 cm (23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Seated Figure and a Cow; Three Studies of a Child's Head

1884 · graphite, pen and brown ink on end papers of sketchbook cover

overall: 17.7 x 23.7 cm (6 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Profile and Four Shapes; Sketch of a Man's Head [recto]

1884 · crayon, graphite, and pen and brown ink on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.1 cm (6 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Scribbles; Two Shapes [verso]

1884 · crayon on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.1 cm (6 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Church Tower; A Sketch of a Fan [recto]

1884 · graphite on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.6 cm (6 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Boy's Face; Two Sheep [verso]

1884 · pen and brown ink and graphite on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.6 cm (6 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Soldiers; Four Soldiers and a Seated Figure [verso]

1884 · crayon on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.7 cm (6 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Five Studies of Soldiers and a Woman's Face; Two Figures [recto]

1884 · crayon on wove paper

overall: 16.9 x 22.7 cm (6 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art