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Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite
1893/94
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Wood-block print, printed three times in reddish-brown, black, and light black ink, with touches of brush and black gouache and silver-gray watercolor (altered from black), on ivory laid Japanese paper, laid down on ivory wove Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist)
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.4 × 35.7 cm (8 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 35.9 cm (8 3/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1954.7
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), 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
Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite — Paul Gauguin. 1893/94.
Medium: Wood-block print, printed three times in reddish-brown, black, and light black ink, with touches of brush and black gouache and silver-gray watercolor (altered from black), on ivory laid Japanese paper, laid down on ivory wove Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist). Dimensions: Image: 20.4 × 35.7 cm (8 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 35.9 cm (8 3/16 × 14 3/16 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.