Femme ceuillant des fruits et Oviri (Woman Picking Fruit and the Savage)

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

1896–97

Medium/Technique Woodcut printed by Gauguin on thin dark cream Asian paper and laid down in reverse on smooth wove paper

Dimensions Block: 10.5 x 9 cm (4 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.); sheet: 13 x 10.3 cm (5 1/8 x 4 1/16 in.); mount: 24.5 x 20.5 cm (9 5/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number60.339

OUT ON LOAN
On display at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3, 2024 – February 16, 2025

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kornfeld 36; Guérin 049

Marks Unnumbered.

ProvenanceBy 1938, William G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston [see note]; 1960, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1960)

NOTE: Lent to "Gauguin Prints and Drawings" (Brooklyn Museum, June 17 - October 2, 1938).