Paul Gauguin

Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso)

1891/93

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Pen and brownish-black ink (originally dark purple), over pen and brown ink (originally purple) (recto) and graphite (verso) on cream wove paper (discolored to tan) (removed from a sketchbook)

Dimensions

22.5 × 7.3 cm (8 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)

Collection no.

1949.649

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Eve (related to the painting Parau ne te varua ino) (recto); Fragment of Inscription (related to Cahier pour Aline) (verso), 1891/93. Inventory 1949.649. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113440. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. View scope: The complete native photograph shows the standing figure on the narrow paper recto. The catalogued verso inscription is not pictured. Full paper edges and supplied white margins are retained.