Loan Exhibition of Gauguin for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York

About the exhibition

Wildenstein and Co. presented Loan Exhibition of Gauguin for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York in New York in 1956. The documented selection includes original prints, with particular surviving works identified in the museum histories. Documented examples include Paul Gauguin’s Human Misery (Misères humaines) (1898-1899; woodcut on Japan paper, perimeter mounted) and Paul Gauguin’s Wayside Shrine in Brittany (Le calvaire Breton) (1898-1899; woodcut on very thin Japan paper). The reconstructed checklist is partial, and exact opening and closing days remain unverified.

Also recorded as: Loan Exhibition. Gauguin. For the benefit of the Citizens' Committee fo Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Company, New York