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Paul Gauguin: The Siesta, ca.1892-94
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Paul Gauguin

[French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1848-1903]

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 Galleries 
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!
Mini-site for the 2002 exhibition Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South

Notable SiteDallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Notable SitePaul Gauguin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

Notable SiteFitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Landscape, 1873

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online

Notable SiteHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
19 works by Gauguin

Notable SiteJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Head of a Tahitian Woman, 1892
Head with Horns, 1895

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  
Many works on paper online

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Notable SiteMusée d'Orsay, Paris

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Sculpture collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City  
The Gods (Te Atua), 1893-94
(In the "Woodcut" section)

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City  
Includes biographical information about the artist

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

Notable SiteNational Gallery, London, UK

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Many works

Notable SiteNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Faaturuma (Melancholic), 1891 (Zoom)

Notable SiteNeue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SiteRijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

Notable SiteTate Gallery, London, UK

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Yellow Christ, 1889

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Hina and Fatu

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Tahitian Landscape (recto)

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Moss Roses in a Basket, 1886

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Femmes, Animaux et Feuillages, woodcut, 1898
Pastorales Martiniques, lithograph, ca.1900

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
The Women at the River (Les femmes a la riviere), 1894

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Still Life with Quimper Pitcher (Nature Morte a la Cruche)

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Laveuses à Arles (Washerwomen in Arles)

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Young Christian Girl, 1894

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
18 works by or related to the artist

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
Bathing in Front of the Port of Pont-Aven

E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  
Mädchen mit Fächer, 1902

Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Tête de jeune paysan

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Winter Day

Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

Hammer Museum, California
Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889

Hammer Museum, California
Te Atua (The Gods), 1893-94

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Paintings" and navigate to painting #5

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas   NEW!

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "G"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
The Barge and the Boat, 1882

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
L'Univers est crée (The Creation of the Universe)

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
2 works online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
5 works

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)  
Paysage, 1901

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  
Nave Nave Mahana

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven, France (in French)  
Deux têtes de Bretonnes, pastel drawing, 1894

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)

Musée Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (in French)  
La Fille du Patron

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
3 works by Gauguin

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
3 works from the this museum and another 3 works from Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Auti te Pape

New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
3 paintings online

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
2 paintings by Gauguin (3rd row)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The King's Wife, 1896

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
3 works online

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 works online

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)  

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Parau Api, Something New, 1892

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
E Haere oe i hia? (Where Are You Going?)

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003-2004 exhibition

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Paul Gauguin at the The British Museum, London, UK

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Fire Dance, 1891

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Blue Tree Trunks. Arles, 1888

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Portrait of a Young Woman. Vaïte (Jeanne) Goupil, 1896

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
The Little One Is Dreaming, Etude, 1881

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
The Wine Harvest at Arles. "Misères Humaines", 1888

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland

Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
3 paintings online

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  
Bretonischer Junge, 1889

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  
Die Seine beim Pont de Grenelle, 1875

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
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Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of Mademoiselle Manthey, 1884

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Brooding Woman, 1891

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works online when last checked

Danish Museums Online (in Danish)  
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)

 
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteGauguin
Website about Gauguin and his paintings

Notable SitePaul Gauguin at The Artchive  

Notable SitePaul Gauguin at The Athenaeum  
Numerous works online by Gauguin

Notable SitePaul Gauguin in the WebMuseum  

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Boston College Fine Arts Department

Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database  

Paul Gauguin at CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
The Field of Derout-Lollichon

Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
Tahitian Woman and Boy

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Expo-Shop

Google Art Project
5 works online

Humanities Web  

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified painting (first one shown), from a 2002 exhibition

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified painting (last one shown), from a 1999 exhibition

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

The Halter Collection

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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Google Images: "Paul Gauguin"      
 
Bing Images: "Paul Gauguin"   
 
 
Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Vase de Fleurs (Lilas)

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, France (in French)  
Online exhibition: "Gauguin dans les collections de Jacques Doucet"

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, France (in French)  
Online exhibition: "Correspondance et manuscrits de Paul Gauguin"

Kilidavid

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

The BBC
2 works online

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Paul Gauguin  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteRKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Apollo Magazine
Article: "Gauguin and a Brothel in Arles"

Art + Auction Magazine
Te Poipoi (le matin), 1892

Artcyclopedia
"Tragedy and Triumph at Arles: Van Gogh and Gauguin"

Artnet Magazine
Paysage Martiniquais, 1887

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Paul Gauguin's Genesis of a Picture: A Painter's Manifesto and Self-Analysis

Salon Magazine

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Ancestors of Tehamana, or Tehamana Has Many Parents, 1893

The Magazine Antiques
"Gauguin Rising"

The New York Observer
"Gauguin, Meyer de Haan Are Reunited in Nirvana", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"A Self-Dramaturge, That Rotten Gauguin Was a Great Painter", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"Back to Paradise: Gauguin's Old Myth Is Re-Romanced", article by Hilton Kramer

The New Yorker
"The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles", 2007 book review by Peter Schjeldahl

The New Yorker
"The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections", 2002 review by Peter Schjeldahl

Vanity Fair Magazine
"Gauguin's Last Testament", 2004 article by John Richardson

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation


"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
Search Inside Books:Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.
 
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The Writings Of A Savage


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Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art


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Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin


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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence


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Gauguin by Himself


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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin


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Van Gogh And Gauguin: Electric Arguments And Utopian Dreams


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Paul Gauguin 1848-1903: The Primitive Sophisticate


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The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections


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Donald Hoffmann


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Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South


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Masters of Art: Gauguin


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Discoveries: Gauguin


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Paul Gauguin: Mysterious Affinities


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Paul Gauguin: Tahiti


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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