Reclining Tahitian (fragment)

Provenance

From the artist to Francisco “Paco” Durrio (1868–1940), Paris, between 1893 and 1895 [González de Durana, Alzuri, and Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), pp. 195–98, 210, no. 18, 222, no. 22; and Société du Salon d’Automne, Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif, exh. cat. (Compagnie Française des Papiers-Monnaie, 1906), cat. 152.]; left by Francisco “Paco” Durrio at Kunsthalle Basel for exhibition in 1928; Walther Geiser (1897–1993), Basel, by Jan. 18, 1931 [Oviri appears in the inventories of Geiser (no. 86-106, Jan. 18, 1931, Holzschnitte, and no. 68–89, Dec. 24, 1931, as Gravures sur bois, all listed as a set of woodcuts)]; consigned by Walther Geiser to Lucas Lichtenhan (1897–1969), Basel, on Jan. 18, 1931; returned by Lucas Lichtenhan to Walther Geiser in 1936; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.

Reclining Tahitian (fragment)

Paul Gauguin

1894

Accession Number

148411

Medium

Pastel monotype, with touches of pastel, on cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on cream wove Japanese paper

Dimensions

Image/primary/secondary support: 20.4 × 11.7 cm (8 1/16 × 4 5/8 in.)

Classification

monotype

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection