Art, literature & history
Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite
1893/94
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Wood-block print in black ink, with hand-applied red, blue, green, yellow, red-orange, and silver-gray watercolor on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 35.4 × 20 cm (13 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 20.4 cm (14 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.261
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham 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
Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite — Paul Gauguin. 1893/94.
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, with hand-applied red, blue, green, yellow, red-orange, and silver-gray watercolor on tan wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 35.4 × 20 cm (13 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 20.4 cm (14 1/16 × 8 1/16 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.