Paul Gauguin
Arearea (Joyfulness) II

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Artist Paul Gauguin(French, 1848–1903)French, 1848–1903

CultureFrench

Titles

Arearea (Joyfulness) II

Date1894

PlaceMarquesas Islands, French Polynesia

MediumGouache and watercolor on linen

Dimensionsmaximum dimensions of fan-shaped image: 11 1/4 × 23 in. (28.6 × 58.4 cm)
framed: 22 1/2 × 33 1/2 inches (57.2 × 85.1 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number77.372

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

113 Brown Foundation Galleries

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Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Ambroise Vollard, Paris]; Gaston Brunaud, Paris; [Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1913]; Max Linder, 1914; Marcel Kapferer, Paris; [Wildenstein and Co., New York]; Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, Los Angeles; [Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, Sale of Important 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, October 19, 1977, lot 10]; Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1977; gift of Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck to MFAH, 1977.
Exhibition HistorySalon d'Automne, Paris, Paul Gauguin, 1906, no. 92

Wildenstein and Company, New York, Gauguin, 1956, no. 36

The Art Institute of Chicago; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Eventail: Gauguin, 1959, no. 107

San Francisco Museum of Art, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, 1960

Exhibited:"The Art of Paul Gauguin," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1 May - 31 July 1988, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 17 Sep-11 Dec 1988, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, 10 Jan - 20 April 1989(LN:88.3)

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed lower right: P. Gauguin

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