Manao Tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her)
Portfolio TitleL'Estampe originale, Album VI
Artist
Paul Gauguin
(French, 1848 - 1903)
Publisher
Jean-André Marty
(French, 1857 - 1928)
Date1894
MediumLithograph with pen and tusche, brush and tusche wash, lithographic crayon, and incising in black ink on beige wove paper
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 10 5/8 inches (18.1 × 26.99 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 9/16 inches (22.23 × 29.37 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 9/16 inches (22.23 × 29.37 cm)
Credit LineGift of Cooper Weeks
Object number2019.61
Inscribed(recto) "Ep. 75/Paul Gauguin." (verso) "Property of E.D. Weeks/ Des Moines Iowa/ Box 3570"
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DescriptionThis print features a recumbent dark-skinned nude girl lying face down across a bed with her arms bent at the elbows and her hands outstretched on a pillow. Her pose is tense. In the right background is a tight grouping of three figures; a standing figure in profile, a dark kneeling figure in profile, and a shirtless standing female figure. The artist's initials "PGO" appear at back left and an inscription "Manao Tupapau" is inscribed along the lower left edge of the print.
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Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.73
