Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)

Spring/Summer 1894

Portfolio	Noa Noa
Medium	woodcut printed in yellow, orange, and black on beige wove paper
Dimensions	image: 8 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (20.6 x 36 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 15 3/4 in. (25 x 40 cm)
Object Number	1981.152
Acquisition	Gift of Jeffrey Shedd, 1981
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Paul Gauguin, Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead), Spring/Summer 1894, woodcut printed in yellow, orange, and black on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of Jeffrey Shedd, 1981.152

Select Bibliography

Marcel Guérin.. L'oeuvre gravé de Gauguin.. Paris: H. Floury.. 1927.. Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

Provenance

Vincent Price Gallery (Sears, Roebuck and Co.), Chicago, by 1971; sale Sotheby’s, New York, 13 Nov. 1971, no. 258, sold to Jeffrey Shedd; Jeffrey Shedd (1971–81, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981.