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Polynesian Woman with Children
Paul Gauguin · 1901
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ambroise Vollard [according to Meyer-Riefstahl 1910-1911, it was lent by him to Dresden 1910 and Munich 1910]. Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, by 1927 [included in Berlin 1927]; purchased by Frederic C. Bartlett, Chicago, February 1927 from Berlin 1927 [according to a letter from Frederic C. Bartlett to Heinrich Thannhauser dated May 21, 1927, Art Institute archives, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1927.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1910, no cat.; travelled to Dresden, Arnold Kunst Salon, 1910.
- Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 103.
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 49.
- Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Nineteenth Century French Art, November 1–13, 1932, no. 26.
- The Art Gallery of Toronto, Modern French Painting from Manet to Matisse, January 1933, no. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 362.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 306.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12–March 29, 1959, no. 66; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21–May 31, 1959.
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, September 17–December 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, January 10–April 20, 1989 (Chicago only, supplement no. 9).
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 73.
- Kunsthaus Zurich, German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blue Rider <other title:Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky>, February 7-May 11, 2014; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8-September 14, 2014; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6, 2014-January 25, 2015 [Los Angeles and Montreal only].
- Basel, Foundation Beyler, Paul Gauguin, February 8–June 28, 2015, pp. 154–155.
Literature
Published references
- Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl, “Paul Gauguin,” Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 27 (1910–1911), p. 115 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Ninth Annual Report (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), p. 20, (ill.).
- R. M. Fishkin, “A Late Gauguin,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21, 6 (1927), pp. 74–75 (ill.).
- R. M. Fishkin, “Gauguin Given to Art Institute,” Art News 25, 40 (1927), p. 7.
- Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, 6 (1928), p. 233.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), pp. 14–15 (ill.), 58; revised edition (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946).
- R. H. Wilenski, French Painting, 2nd ed. (Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, Inc., 1931), p. 289; revised editions (Boston: Hale, Cushman & Inc., 1936); (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 154.
- “Museum News: Acquisitions and Activities of the Art Centers,” Parnassus 4, 7 (1932), p. 14 (ill.).
- “Chicago Show to Present French Modern Classics,” Art News 31, 34 (1933), p. 4.
- “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (1933), p. 116.
- Wiebe A. White, Paintings by Paul Gauguin Owned in the United States of America and The Hawaiian Islands (unpub. ms., Ryerson Library, 1936), p. 60.
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