Manau tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite — Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Manau 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 twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping, and a transferred twill impression, on pale-pink wove paper (faded to tan)
Dimensions
Image: 20.4 × 35.6 cm (8 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 35.7 cm (8 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Collection no.
1948.256
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Paul Gauguin. Manau 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

Manau 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 twice in brown and black inks, with selective wiping, and a transferred twill impression, on pale-pink wove paper (faded to tan). Dimensions: Image: 20.4 × 35.6 cm (8 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 35.7 cm (8 3/16 × 14 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.

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