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Auti Te Pape (The Women at the River)

Maker

(artist)
1848-1903

(wood engraver)
1848-1903

(publisher)

(printer)
1883-1961

Title

Auti Te Pape (The Women at the River)

Date of Production

1893 - 1894

Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 35.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1948.SC.182.8

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Related Works

Album of ten woodcuts

Label Text

Gauguin commemorated his first sojourn in Tahiti in a memoir and a series of prints, both called Noa Noa. This enigmatic image of Tahitian women beside a river, which forms part of the series, reveals Gauguin’s unorthodox approach to wood engraving. As well as using a graver to cut the outlines of the figures, Gauguin used an array of other tools – a gouge to create the pitted texture of the pebbled riverbank, razors for finer lines, and sandpaper to roughen the surface of the block. In essence, he treated his printing blocks like low-relief sculptures.

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

Impressions of Modern Life: Prints from the Courtauld Gallery, Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, 13/01/2020-03/04/2020

The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019 ...More

The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 20's, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-08/09/2013

Paths to Abstraction - 1867 to 1917, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Sydney & Australia, 25/06/2010-19/09/2010

Once Upon a Time - Artists and Storytelling, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London, 24/06/2009-26/07/2009

Manet to Matisse - French Prints from the Courtauld, Finchley & London & England, 27/06/2008-16/08/2008

Gauguin's Tahitian Prints: A Selection from the Noa Noa Album, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/08/2003-30/09/2003

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998 ...Less

Literature

Serres, Karen (ed.), The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, Paul Holberton Publishing 2019
no. 51, pp. 246-252
ill. on p. 249

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