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Paul Gauguin (artist)
French, 1848 - 1903
Self-Portrait, 1889
oil on wood
overall: 79.2 x 51.3 cm (31 3/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
Chester Dale Collection
1963.10.150
From the Tour: Paul Gauguin
Object 2 of 8

1921Chassé, Charles. Gauguin et le groupe de Pont-Aven, Paris, 1921:48
1925Cann, Louise Gebhard. "Gauguin's Image of Himself," International Studio 81 (May 1925): 120
1929Dale, Maud. "French Art in the Chester Dale Collection," Art News (27 April 1929)46-47, repro.
1929Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 61, repro.
1938Rewald, John. Gauguin. Paris, 1938:repro.
1942French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 74, repro.
1942Hook, Katrina can. "A Self-Portrait by Paul Gauguin from the Chester Dale Collection," Gazette des Beaux-Arts series VI, XXII (October-December 1942:183+, repro.
1944French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 74, repro.
1949Leymarie, Jean. Exposition du centenaire. Exh. cat., Musées nationaux, 1949:33, under no. 23
1950Lewandowski, Herbert. Paul Gauguin, oder Die Flucht vor der Zivilisation. Bern, 1950:344.
1953French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 82, repro.
1957Däubler, Theodor. "Gauguin," Das Kunstwerk (November-December 1957):10, repro.
1961Rewald, John. Le Post-Impressionnsme de van Gogh à Gauguin. Paris, 1961:178
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 168, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 327, repro.
1964Wildenstein 1964, no.323.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 56
1965Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 123, repro.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:470, color repro.
1967Blanton, Catherine W. "Notes on a Portrait by Gauguin in the Chester Dale Collection." Studies in the History of Art (1967-68):89-98, repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 48, repro.
1968Buser, Rev. Thomas. "Gauguin's Religion," Art Journal XXVII/4 (Summer 1968): 375-380, repro.
1968Sérullaz, Maurice. Peintres maudits. Paris, 1968:68, repro.
1971Anderson, Wayne. Gauguin's Paradise Lost. New York, 1971:11-12, repro. 8
1971Clay, Jean, ed. L'impressionnisme. Paris, 1971: 170, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 146, repro.
1975Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech. Paul Gauguin in the Context of Symbolism. New York, 1975:332-337
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 119, pl. 105, color repro.
1979Goldwater, Robert. Symbolism. New York, 1985:81-82, repro.
1980Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1980: 435, repro.
1981Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Paris, 1981:no. 199, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 524, no. 789, color repro.
1985Le chemin de Gauguin: genèse et rayonnement. Exh. cat. Musée départemental du Prieuré, 1985:118, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 169, repro.
1987Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech. "Paul Gauguin;s 'Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake': The Artist as Initiate and Magus," Art Journal (Spring 1987):22-28, repro.
1988NGA Gauguin 1988, 92.
1989Hofstätter, Hans H. "Christliche Thematik im Werk von Paul Gauguin," Das Münster: Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft (1989): 4:302, repro.
1991Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1991: 15, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 200, repro.
1993Braun, Barbara. Post-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern Art. New York, 1993:79, repro.
1993Harrison. Charles, Francis Frascina and Gill Perry. Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century. New Haven, 1993:19, repro.
1993Kapas, Martha, ed., The Post-Impressionists: A Retrospective. New York, 1993:152, repro.
1993Thomson, Belinda, ed. Gauguin by Himself. New York, 1993:no. 107, repro.
1997Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997: no. 333, repro.
1999Wood, Paul, ed. The Challenge of the Avant-Garde. New Haven, 1999:172-173, repro.
2000Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. Exh. cat. Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2000-2001: no. 121.
2000Paul Gauguin: Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti. Ein Abruch zur Moderne. Exh. cat. Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000: 53, repro.
2000Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech. Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin. Cambridge, 2000:174-175, repro.
2001Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at L Pouldu 1889-1890. Exh. cat. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 2001:30-31, 67, 68-70, 96-97, 105, 110, 119, 137, repro.
2001Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago; Van Gigh Museum, Amsterdam, 2001: 309, 312 repro.
2001Adriani, Götz, Henri Rousseau: Der Zöllner, Grenzgänger zur Moderne. Exh. cat. Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2001: 146, repro.

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