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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGol ArtiStS FOCUS tfl Gauguin Britt Salvesen Artists in Focus W v Hi #v V v.. Britt Salvesen^ in association with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Distributed by HarryN.Abrams, Inc.,Publishers 1 ©2001 byTheArtInstituteofChicago.Allrightsreserved. Fig. 1:©2000MalcolmVaron.Fig.2:©Musee Thisbookmaynotbereproduced,inwholeorinpart,inany DepartmentalMauriceDenis "LePrieure,"St.-Germain- form(beyondthecopyingpermittedbySections 107and 108 en-Laye.Figs.3,20:photosbyMichael Bodycomb. Fig.5: oftheU.S.CopyrightLawandexceptbyreviewersforthe ©BoardofTrustees,NationalGalleryofArt,Washington, publicpress),withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepub- D.C.Fig.7: RMN/ArtResource,NY.Fig.8:Musees lishers. Royauxd'Artetd'Histoire,Brussels.Figs. 10, 13:VanGogh Museum,Amsterdam(VincentvanGogh Foundation). ProducedbythePublicationsDepartmentofTheArt Fig. 11:TheBridgemanArtLibrary.Fig. 12:National InstituteofChicago,SusanF.Rossen,ExecutiveDirector GalleriesofScotland,Edinburgh. Fig. 14:TheState EditedbyLisaMeyerowitzandSusanF. Rossen HermitageMuseum,St.Petersburg.Fig. 15: IsraelMuseum Photoeditor,KarenAltschul Collection,Jerusalem.Fig. 16: FromOudhedenvanJava: ProductionsupervisedbySarahGuernseyandStacey Hendricks DFieg.te1m7p:e©l'ru2i0'n0e0BMoruos-eBouemdooefrF(iBnateavAirats,,1B8o7s4)t,onp.i.A5l7l/r5i8g.hts DesignedandtypesetbyJoanSommersDesign,Chicago reserved.Fig. 19: FromJ.Arago,Voyageautourdumonde ColorseparationsbyProfessionalGraphicsInc.,Rockford,IL. (Paris, 1839),vol.2,p.327.Fig.21:PhotobyJoeMikuliak. PrintedandboundbyMondadori,Verona,Italy Fig.22: From RonaldPickvance,Gauguin,exh.cat. (Martigny,Switzerland, 1998),p. 148.Fig.23:PhotobyJean D1i0s0tFriifbtuhteAdveinnu2e0,01NebywHYaorrrky,NN.YAb10r0a1m1s,Inc., SMcuhsoermuamnso,fARrMt.N/FiAgr.t25R:eGsaoluerrciee,SNcYh.miFti,g.Pa2r4i:s.ClFeigv.el2a7:ndWitt Library,CourtauldInstititute,London. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber200189786 Cover:DayoftheGod, 1894(pi. 16). ISBN0-8109-6739- Details:frontispiece(seepi. 13),p.8(seepi.29),p. 13(see pi.3),p.21 (seepi.6),p.27(seepi. 11),p.35(seepi. 13), Photography,unlessotherwisenoted,bytheImaging p.41 (seepi. 16),p.49(seepi. 16),p.55(seepi. 17),p.61 Department,Alan B.Newman,ExecutiveDirector (seepi. 18b),p.67(seepi.25),p.71 (seepi.8),p. 106(see pl.3l) All illustrationsareofworksbyPaulGauguininTheArt InstituteofChicago, unlessotherwisenoted.Dimensionsof worksofartaregiven incentimeters,heightprecedingwidth. ZLI^>3^^~ Contents 6 Foreword 8 Essay 71 Plates 106 Checklist 112 Selected Bibliography — Tofullyunderstand the scopeandoriginalityof thecollection, made in 2000, isanearlystill life, Paul Gauguin's art,one mustlooknotonlyathis produced when Gauguinwas still teaching outputofpaintings, butalsoattheworks hecre- himselftocaptureappearances, ratherthan the ated ina rangeofmedia, includingprintmaking, mysteries thatunderlie them, as hewould later ceramics and sculpture,and drawing. Gauguin challenge himselftodo. Overthe nearlyeight eagerlyembraced the unconventional in art,as in decades thatseparate these acquisitions,the life,and through constantexperimentation,he Art Institute'scollection ofworksbyGauguin achieved greatinnovation and powerful expres- has developed intooneofthe mostimportant sion. In factthefirstworks byGauguintoenter in the United States, includingexamples from the permanentcollectionofTheArtInstituteof everyperiod ofthis prodigiousartist'scareer: — — Chicago both in 1922 were notpaintingsbut eightcanvases,over 180worksonpaper,and a ahauntingwatercolor{Mysterious Water[Papa ceramicsculpture. — moe])and a bold, late print{Nativity). Oneyear Like theotherArtistsinFocustitles theArt afterthesegifts,the museumacquired its first Institute'songoingseries thatshowcases key canvas bytheartist,Hibiscus Tree(TeBurau), modernartistswhoare particularlywell repre- painted duringhis initial trip toTahiti.Alwaysa sented in the museum's permanentcollections restless soul,Gauguinjourneyed to the South Gauguin(alongwith asimilarvolumeonvan Pacific toescape theconstraintsand materialism Gogh), isoccasioned bya majorloan exhibition. ofEuropeand to live and depictamoreessential, "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studioofthe "primal" existence. The mostrecentaddition to South," which opensattheArt Institute in
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