Art, literature & history
Le sourire: Journal méchant, Feb. 1900
1900
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block print in black ink, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Full sheet: 37.4 × 50.9 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/16 in.); Folded sheet: 37.4 × 25.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.); Headpiece: 10.3 × 14.9 cm (4 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.418
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Le sourire: Journal méchant, Feb. 1900. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Le sourire: Journal méchant, Feb. 1900 — Paul Gauguin. 1900.
Medium: Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block print in black ink, on cream wove paper. Dimensions: Full sheet: 37.4 × 50.9 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/16 in.); Folded sheet: 37.4 × 25.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.); Headpiece: 10.3 × 14.9 cm (4 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.