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No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)
Paul Gauguin · 1896
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mme. Ernest Chausson, Paris by 1904 [see Brussels 1904 and Wildenstein 1964]. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York by 1923 [see New York 1923]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago on February 20, 1925 [see purchase receipt dated February 20, 1925, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Brussels, Musée de Bruxelles, La Libre esthétique. Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, February 25–March 29, 1904, cat. 55.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Gauguin, February, 1923, no cat. [confirmed by Charles Durand-Ruel’s letter of February 27, 1979, copy in curatorial file; see also New York Times 1923].
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, cat. 43 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 359.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 304.
- New York, Wildenstein and Co. Inc., Paul Gauguin 1848–1903: 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. 33 (ill.).
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, May 1–21, 1936, cat. 32 (ill.).
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Paul Gauguin 1848–1903: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Paintings, May 24–June 5, 1936, cat. 21 (ill.).
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Cézanne-Gauguin, November 1-December 13, 1936, cat. 3 (ill.).
- Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Cranbrook Association of Art, Exhibition, January 15-March 1, 1945, no cat.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition, April 1-May 15, 1950, no cat.
- Omaha, Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Beginnings of Modern Paintings, France, 1800-1910, October 4-November 4, 1951, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- “The World of Art,” The New York Times (March 11, 1923), Section IV, p. 12, col. 3.
- Hardinge Scholle, “Modern French Ceramics,” The Arts, 3, 3 (March 1923), p. 118ff (ill.).
- Robert Rey, Gauguin (Paris, 1923), pl. 26.
- John W. Beatty, The Modern Art Movement (Pittsburgh, 1924), pp. 10–11, 9 (ill).
- Gustave Kahn, “Paul Gauguin,” L’Art et les artistes 12, 6 (October 1925), p. 59 (ill.).
- Madeleine Octave Maus, Trente années de lutte pour l’art, 1884–1914 (Brussels, 1926), p. 319.
- R. M. Fishkin, “A Late Gauguin,” The Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21, 6 (September 1927), p. 75.
- R. M. Fishkin, “Gauguin Given to Art Institute,” The Art News 25, 40 (September 17, 1927), p. 7.
- Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” Boston Evening Transcript (March 9, 1929).
- Arséne Alexandre, Paul Gauguin; Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Paris, 1930), pp. 245, 273 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 72.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “L’Exposition d’Art français à l’art Institute de Chicago,” Formes (1933), p. 383.
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