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Pape moe
Paul Gauguin · 1893/94
Provenance
Ownership history
- Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871–1964), London, by 1910 [Robins, “‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’: A Checklist of Exhibits,” Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (Dec. 2010), p. 788]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, Nov. 8, 1910–Jan. 15, 1911, no cat. no.
- New York, 69th Regiment Armory, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Feb. 17–Mar. 15, 1913, cat. 180, as À La Source.
- Art Institute of Chicago, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Mar. 24–Apr. 16, 1913, cat. 143, as At the spring.
- Copley Society of Boston, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Apr. 28–May 19, 1913, cat. 60, as At the spring.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 874, as Tahitian Drinking from a Waterfall.
- Oakland, Calif., Mills College Art Gallery, European Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 19–Mar. 29, 1939, cat. 42, as Tahitian drinking from waterfall; Seattle Art Museum, Apr. 5–May 7, 1939.
- Decatur (Ill.) Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art, Mar. 4–25, 1945, cat. 6, as Tahitian Drinking from a Waterfall; Springfield Art Association, Apr. 4–30, 1945.
- Boston, Institute of Modern Art, 100 Modern Pictures, May 23–July 14, 1945, cat. 21, as Tahitian Drinking from Waterfall.
- New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, Apr. 3–May 4, 1946, cat. 45, as Tahitian Drinking from a Waterfall.
- San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 19th Century French Drawings, Mar. 9–Apr. 16, 1947, cat. 138, as Tahitian Drinking from a Waterfall.
- Art Center in La Jolla (Calif.), Post Impressionists, Aug. 7–Sept. 25, 1955, cat. 46, as Tahitian Drinking from a Waterfall.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, Feb. 12–Mar. 29, 1959, cat. 109, as Mysterious Water (Pape Moe); New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 21–May 31, 1959.
Literature
Published references
- Grafton Galleries exh: Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Ballantyne, 1910), no cat. no.3
- Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (n.p., 1913), p. 26, cat. 180.
- Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (n.p., 1913), n.pag, cat. 143.
- Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Copley Society of Boston, 1913), n.pag., cat. 60.
- “Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, no. 1 (Jan. 1923), p. 11.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Notes on Some Modern Drawings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21, no. 3 (Mar. 1927), p. 36.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 91, cat. 874.
- Oakland, Calif., Mills College Art Gallery, and the Seattle Art Museum, European Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat. (n.p., 1939), n.pag., cat. 42.
- Decatur (Ill.) Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art, exh. cat. (Decatur Art Center, 1945), p. 6, cat. 6.
- Boston, Institute of Modern Art, 100 Modern Pictures, exh. cat. (Institute of Modern Art, 1945), n.pag., cat. 21.
- Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, with an essay by Raymond Cogniat, exh. cat. (Wildenstein & Co., 1946), p. 68, cat. 45.
- John Rewald, 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat. (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1947), p. 85, cat. 138.
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