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Paul Gauguin

French, 1848–1903

Human Misery

1889

Portfolio Volpini Suite
Medium zincograph printed in reddish-brown ink with borderlines in graphite on yellow wove paper
Dimensions image: 11 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (28.5 x 23.2 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 x 21 1/4 in. (43.9 x 53.9 cm)
Object Number 1962.61
Acquisition Acquired by the Clark, 1962
Status Off View

Image Caption

Paul Gauguin, Human Misery, 1889, zincograph printed in reddish-brown ink with borderlines in graphite on yellow wove paper. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1962.61

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Twenty-Three: Paul Gauguin.. May 19, 1963.. 1963.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-nine: Curator's Choice. May, 1965.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Dreams and Reality. Feb. 27-Nov. 1, 1973. Wadsworth Atheneum.. Gauguin's Nirvana: Portrait of Meyer de Haan. Cat. ed. by Eric M. Zafran.. Jan. 26-April 29, 2001.. Eric M. Zafran (editor). Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889-90.. Hartford (CT): Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.. 2001. Marcel Guérin. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié d'Aristide Maillol. Geneva: P. Cailler. 1965-1967. Eisenman, Stephen F. ed. Paul Gauguin: Artist of Myth and Dream. Complesso del Vittoriano, October 5, 2007- February 3, 2008. Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A. 2007. Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

Provenance

[Jane Wade Rosenberg, Fine Arts Association, sold to Michel, 1957]; Dr. Herbert Leon Michel, Chicago (sold to the Clark, 1962); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1962.

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