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Explore image in Artist: Paul Gauguin, French, 1848–1903
Parau Parau (Whispered Words)
1892
Oil on canvas
unframed: 77.1 × 96.5 cm (30 3/8 × 38 in.)
John Hay Whitney, B.A. 1926, Hon. 1956, Collection
1982.111.5
Status:
On view
Culture:
French
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Vente Gauguin, Paris, Hotel Drouot, June 18, 1895, no. 38; Paul Gauguin; A. Vollard, Paris; Galerie Tanner, Zurich; Marquis Maeda, Japan; New York art market. John Hay Whitney, to 1982; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Albert Kostenevich, ed., Impressionism: Sensation and Inspiration: Highlights from the Hermitage, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Museumshop Hermitage Amsterdam, 2012), 122, ill.
Frauke V. Josenhans et al., Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017), 50, no. 1, ill.
Alan Shestack, ed., Yale University Art Gallery Selections (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983).
Susan D. Greenberg, A Selection of French Impressionist Paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001), 13, fig. 6.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
