Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1891/93

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1891–1893
Medium: Pen and brownish-black ink (originally dark purple), over pen and brown ink (originally purple) (recto) and graphite (verso) on cream wove paper (discolored to tan) (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions: 22.5 × 7.3 cm (8 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Reference Number: 1949.649
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/113440/manifest.json

“Une lettre inédite de Gauguin,” Les marges 14, no. 52 (May 15, 1918), p. 168 (ill.).
Association Paris–Amerique Latine, Exposition rétrospective: Hommage au génial artiste franco-péruvien Gauguin, with introductions by F. Cossio del Pomar and G. Daniel de Monfreid, exh. cat. (n.p., 1926), no pg. no., cat. 25.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 28, cat. 197.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin: 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 28, cat. 189.
Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, 1928), p. 14, cat. 167.
Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Bernheim-Jeune, 1930), p. 233 (ill.).
Leicester Galleries, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1931), p. 11, cat. 61.
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, with Raymond Cogniat and Daniel Wildenstein, vol. 1, Catalogue (Beaux-Arts, 1964), p. 184, under cat. 458.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 61–62 (ill.), no. 3F3.
Paul Gauguin, “A ma fille Aline, ce cahier est dédié”: Notes éparses, sans suite comme les rêves, comme la vie toute fait de morceaux; Journal de jeune fille, ed. Victor Merlhès, vol. 2, facsimile ed. (William Blake/Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie, p. 40 (ill.).
Françoise Cachin, Gauguin (Hachette, 1989), p. 136 (ill.).
Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, and María Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), p. 215, no. 8 (ill.).

Paris, Association Paris Amerique Latine, “Exposition Retrospective: Hommage au Génial Artiste Franca-Péruvien Gauguin,” December 17, 1926, cat. 25.
Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin,” July-August, 1928, p. 28, cat. 197 (1st ed.), cat. 189 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin,” October 1928, p. 14, cat. 167.
London, The Leicester Galleries, “Exhibition of the Durrio Collection of Works by Paul Gauguin,” May-June 1931, p. 11, cat. 61.

Francisco “Paco” Durrio (1868-1940), Paris [letter from Carl Schniewind to Jean Goriany of November 10, 1949 in curatorial file]. Sold by the Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1949.

Cat. 38 Tahitian Eve (recto), Fragment of Inscription (verso), 1891/93

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Currently Off View

Status

Department

Artist

Title

Place

Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Medium

Dimensions

Credit Line

Reference Number

IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world.

Learn more.

Explore Further

Suggested Terms

See all hours

Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)

Currently Off View

Date:

Artist:

About this artwork

Status

Department

Artist

Title

Place

Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Medium

Dimensions

Credit Line

Reference Number

IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.

Extended information about this artwork

Publication History

Exhibition History

Provenance

Multimedia

Share

Explore Further

Related artworks

Sign up for our enewsletter to receive updates.

Gallery actions

Image actions

Share

IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world.

Learn more.