Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her), from the Noa Noa Suite
Paul Gauguin · 1893/94
Palette
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Details
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903 - Date
- 1893/94
- Type
- Medium
- End-grain boxwood block, with a commercially prepared gray ground, sealed with an opaque pink oil medium, and inked in black ink
- Size
- 20.4 × 35.3 × 2.3 cm (8 1/16 × 13 15/16 × 15/16 in.)
- Place
- France
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Black · lightness 33, colourfulness 6
Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hilliard Fund; Meg and Mark Hausberg Fund; Mr. and Mrs. T. Stanton Amour Fund; Art and Peggy Wood Fund; Marjorie and Frank Brookes Hubachek Memorial Fund; Print and Drawing Fund; Julius Lewis Fund; Mary S. Adams Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules
