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Currently not on display

Paul Gauguin

Paris, 1848 - Atuona, Hiva'Oa, Marquesas Islands, 1903

<Noa Noa>: Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)

Date 1893-94
Materials and Techniques woodcut, wood engraving, in three colors on thick Japan paper
Size(cm) 20.5 x 35.6 (plate); 23.5 x 39.5 (paper); Printed by Louis Roy
State iv/iv
Inscriptions Signed in monogram lower left: PGO; Titled upper left: Manao Tupapau
Standard ref. Guérin 20; Mongan/Kornfeld/Joachim 20-IV-D
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2010-0022

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2011.

Exhibition History

2022
In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 52

Bibliography

2012
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 45 (Apr. 2010-Mar. 2011), 2012, List of New Acquisitions. p. 58.
2022
In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 117, 258, cat. no. 52, col. repr.

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