
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Joies de Bretagne (Joys of Brittany), from the Volpini Suite
Paul Gauguin · 1889
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Hellmuth Wallach (1901–1989), New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 129.
- Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58b (ill.), cat. by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov; traveled to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Vogh, Amsterdam, April 9-June 14, 1981.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, p. 138, cat. 72 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist", June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 15, 126, 127, 142, cat. 47, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 80, cat. 129.
- Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981), p. 196, cat. 58b (ill.).
- Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), pp. 131, 138, cat. 72 (ill.).
- Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 28, cat. 7.
- Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing (L. King, 1991), p. 224, fig. 71a.
- Bernard Denvir, Paul Gauguin: The Search for Paradise; Letters from Brittany and the South Seas (Collins & Brown, 1992), p. 42 (ill.).
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand

Mahana no atua (Day of the God)
Art Institute of Chicago

Arlésiennes (Mistral)
Art Institute of Chicago

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)
Art Institute of Chicago

No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)
Art Institute of Chicago

Polynesian Woman with Children
Art Institute of Chicago

Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)
Art Institute of Chicago

Woman in Front of a Still Life by Cezanne
Art Institute of Chicago

Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant