Arearea no Varua Ino (Words of the Devil) [recto]

1894

Paul Gauguin

Artist, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor monotype on Japan paper, mounted to tan cardboard on whose verso is a fragment of another print

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.4 x 16.6 cm (9 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
    support: 33.4 x 22.7 cm (13 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.9078.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Field 1973, no. 8

Associated Artworks

Auti te Pape (Women at the River) [verso]

Paul Gauguin, Louis Roy

1894

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edgar Degas [1848-1903]; (Hôtel Drouot, November 6-7, 1918, lot 127); Marcel Guérin [1873-1948]; (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • Gauguin: Sculpteur et Graveur, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 1928, no. 41.

1939

  • Gauguin: first trip to Tahiti, Bignou Gallery, New York, 1939.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 124-125, repro.

1947

  • A Survey of Watercolor: East and West, Old and New, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1947.

1949

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1949, no cat.

1950

  • Gauguin in Tahiti, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1950.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1955

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956

  • Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL; and The Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1956, no. 59.

1959

  • Gauguin, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1959, no. 193.

  • The Great Century: France 1800-1900, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1959.

1960

  • Paul Gauguin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1960, no. 121, repro.

  • Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, Vienna, 1960, no. 60, repro.

1964

  • The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 30.

1965

  • Dedicatory Art Exhibition for the William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1965, no. 21.

1966

  • Gauguin and the Decorative Style, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, not in catalogue.

1973

  • Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, no. 8, repro.

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, no. 192, repro.

1997

  • The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, no. 497.

2011

  • Gauguin: Maker of Myth, NGA, 2011, no. 80, repro.

Bibliography

1973

  • Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin Monotypes. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.

  • Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin: Monotypes. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973: 58, no.8.

1988

  • The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988: no. 192.

1993

  • Thomson, Belinda, ed. Gauguin by Himself. Boston, 1993: no. 193.

Wikidata ID

Q65024235

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