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A watercolor depicting a golden hill with mountains.

A watercolor showing a brightly colored landscape. In the foreground are red flowers and purple plants in front of a fence that extends from the center of the piece to the right. Behind this is a large golden hill with trees at its top and dark mountains in the background. Above is a blue sky with small clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.42
People
Paul Gauguin, French (Paris 1848 - 1903 Fatu-Iwa [Marquesas Islands])
Title
Parahi te marae (There Is the Temple)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: La Montagne Sacrée; The Sacred Mountain
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1892
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296972

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on Japanese paper
Dimensions
18.5 x 22.9 cm (7 5/16 x 9 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Mollard, Paris. Mme Gerard, Paris. Henri Petiet, Paris. Marian H. Phinney, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.42
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. (New York/London, 1958), plate 64, repr. p. 32
  • Gauguin: paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1959), p. 48, cat. no. 44 [reference citation]
  • Jean Leymarie, Paul Gauguin: Water-Colors, Pastels and Drawings in Color, Faber & Faber Limited (London, 1961), p. 23, repr. (color)
  • Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin, Hamlyn Publishing Group (London/New York, 1970), plate XIV, p. 17, repr. p. 36 (color)
  • Rolf Wedewer and Herbert Schneidler, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, 1981), plate 5, p. 73, repr. p. 158 (color)
  • Belinda Thomson, Gauguin, Thames & Hudson (New York, NY, 1987), p. 160, repr. p. 144, fig. 126 (color)
  • Michael Hoog, Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1987), p. 184, fig. 127 (color)
  • Jean Leymarie, Gauguin: Aquarelles, pastels et dessins, Editions d'Art Albert Skira (Genève, 1988), p. 62, repr. (color)
  • George T.M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Thory, Gauguin Tahiti, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, Mass., 2004), cat. no. 86, p. 43, repr. p. 44 (color)
  • Heather Lemonedes Brown, Belinda Thomson, and Agnieszka Juszczak, Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, 2009), p. 177, cat. no. 101, repr.
  • Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017

Exhibition History

  • Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/12/1959 - 03/29/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/23/1959 - 05/31/1959
  • Paul Gauguin: In Search of Paradise, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 03/06/1987 - 05/17/1987; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 06/12/1987 - 06/28/1987
  • Gauguin Tahiti, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/29/2004 - 06/20/2004
  • Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 10/04/2009 - 01/18/2010; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 02/19/2010 - 06/06/2010
  • Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

Verification Level

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