Mahana no atua (Day of the God)

1. Bought from the artist’s studio exhibition by Edgar Degas (died 1917), Paris in December 1894, for 500 francs [Degas inventory no. 71, see London 1996 and New York 1997-98]; Degas Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, March 26-27, 1918, lot 43, sold for 12,600 francs as Le Repos au bord de la mer (Tahiti) to Jos Hessel, Paris [according to New York 1997-98]. George Bernheim, Paris by 1924; shipped from Bernheim to the Art Institute in July 1924 [see Registrar receipt dated July 12, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Frederick Clay Bartlett, Chicago in 1925 [according to Brettell 1986]; given to the Art Institute, Chicago, 1926.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Boston, Art Club, 1925.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, November 1929, cat. 46 (ill).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 355.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 301.
• Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, May 1–21, 1936, cat. 28.
• Baltimore, Museum of Art, Paul Gauguin 1848–1903. A Retrospective Exhibition of His Paintings, May 24–June 5, 1936, cat. 17.
• New York, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., Paul Gauguin: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition For the Benefit of Les Amis de Paul Gauguin and The Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School, March 20–April 18, 1936, cat. 29.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12–March 29, 1959, cat. 57, traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 29–April 21, 1959.
• Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; cat. 205 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, September 17–December 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, January 10–April 20, 1989 [Washington and Chicago only].
• Moscow, The Pushkin Museum, Gauguin in Russia, May–June 1989, cat. 37 (ill.); Leningrad [St. Petersburg], The Hermitage, July–October, 1989.
• London, National Gallery, Degas as a Collector, May 22-August 26, 1996, cat. 57 (ill.).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997-January 11, 1998, cat. 483 (ill.).

• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), no. 2242.
• The Art News 24, 10 (December 12), 1925, p. 8 (ill.).
• “The Birch-Bartlett Loan Collection,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 19, 7 (October 1925), p. 82 (ill. on cover).
• Forbes Watson, “A Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,” The Arts 9, 6 (June 1926), p. 305 (ill.).
• Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 6, pl. 7.
• R. M. Fishkin, “A Late Gauguin,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21, 6 (September 1927), pp. 74–75.
• R. M. Fishkin, “Gauguin Given to Art Institute,” Art News 25, 40 (September 17, 1927), p. 7.
• Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, 6 (December 1928), pp. 233, (ill.) 234.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago, 1929), pp. 12, 58, (ill.) 13.
• “Chicago show to present French modern classics,” Art News 31, 34 (May 20, 1933), p. 4.
• “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 27, 7 (December 1933), p. 116 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Exhibirion of French Art ‘Art Institute of Chicago,’” Formes 33 (1933), p. 383.

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

Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher

Art Institute of Chicago

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