Manao Tupapau (The Spirits of the Dead Are Watching)

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker

(artist)
1848-1903
(wood engraver)
1848-1903
(printer)
1883-1961
(publisher)
(printer)
1883-1961

Title

Manao Tupapau (The Spirits of the Dead Are Watching)

Date of Production

1893-1894

Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 35.6 cm

Object Number

G.1948.SC.182.3

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Related Works (1)

Album of ten woodcuts G.1948.SC.182
Album of ten woodcuts

Label Text

For more information on the series, see G.1948.SC.182.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed : signed : in the block & lower left : : PGo

Provenance

Pola Gauguin, Copenhagen, 1921; Leicester Galleries, London, by 1924; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, London, July 1924, for £47.5 (portfolio); Courtauld Bequest, 1948

Exhibition History

Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 15/03/2025-03/08/2025
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme (Braintree Museum) Courtaulds: Origins, Innovations, Family, Braintree Museum, 02/02/2020-10/11/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
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Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 20's, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-08/09/2013
Once Upon a Time - Artists and Storytelling, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London, 24/06/2009-26/07/2009
Special Display - Impressionist Prints, Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2008-13/10/2008
WE the Moderns, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 20/01/2007-18/03/2007
WE the Moderns, Kettle's Yard & Cambridge & England, 13/01/2007-04/03/2007
Gauguin's Tahitian Prints: A Selection from the Noa Noa Album, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/08/2003-30/09/2003
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Nude: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Prints, Morley Gallery, London, 10/04/1975-24/05/1975
Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960
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Literature

Serres, Karen (ed.), The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, Paul Holberton Publishing 2019
no. 55, pp. 247-252
ill. on p. 251
Guérin, Marcel, L’oeuvre gravé de Gauguin (Paris: H. Floury, 1927).
no. 91

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