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Title:A Tahitian Woman with a Flower in Her Hair
Artist:Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)
Date:1891–92
Medium:Charcoal, pastel, red chalk, and wash
Dimensions:15 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (39 x 30.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Accession Number:67.187.13
Adelaide Milton de Groot (American)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," April 23–May 31, 1959.
Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions 1965–1975," December 6, 1975–March 23, 1976.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23–August 23, 1981.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings, Prints and Photographs: A Selection," July 25–September 10, 1989.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections," June 18–October 20, 2002.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," July 27–October 25, 2004.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. "Gauguin, Polynesia," September 24, 2011–December 31, 2011.
Pickvance 68
Theodore Reff Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture. Ex. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959, cat. no. 103, pp. 64, 68, ill.
Cent Oeuvres de Gauguin. Exh. cat., Paris, Galerie Charpentier. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1960, cat. no. 102, ill.
Ronald Pickvance The Drawings of Gauguin. London, New York, Sydney, Toronto, 1970, cat. no. 68, fig. no. pl. 68, pp. 33, 64, ill.
Colta Ives Prints by Paul Gauguin. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971, cat. no. 46.
Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 octobre 1973–7 janvier 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 43, fig. no. 73, 42, 143, ill.
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Jean Leymarie Gauguin: Watercolor, Pastels, Drawings. 1989. New York, 1989, p. 74, ill.
Nicholas Wadley Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. Laurence King Publishers, London, 1991, cat. no. 72a, p. 226.
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Charlotte Hale, Marjorie Shelley The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, New York, 2002, cat. no. 58, pp. 86, 170, 173, 200, 204-5, 217, 222, ill.
Gauguin, Polynesia. Exh. cat., Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, September 24-December 31, 2011, Seattle Art Museum, February 9-April 29, 2012. Suzanne Greub, Munich, 2011, no. 215, ill. p. 226.
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