Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

Provenance

Sold by Galerie St. Etienne, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.

Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

Paul Gauguin

1891/93

Accession Number

113277

Medium

Black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)

Dimensions

17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Classification

crayon

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Samuel P. Avery Fund