Paul Gauguin
Otahi1893

On view:

Geffen Galleries

Oil painting of a brown-skinned figure lying face-down on a white cloth, bare-backed, wearing a red wrap, against a flat yellow hillside with a narrow blue sky above

Artist or Maker: Paul Gauguin
France, Paris, 1848-1903
Title: Otahi
Date Made: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 19 5/8 × 28 11/16 in. (49.85 × 72.87 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 37 × 3 7/8 in. (69.53 × 93.98 × 9.84 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of A. Jerrold Perenchio
Accession Number: M.2025.64.48
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: The artist (consigned to Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Vente Gauguin, 18 February 1895, lot 17, unsold), probably bought from the artist by Ambroise Vollard, sold 1900 to; Olivier Sainsère (1852–1923), Paris; by descent through the family until at least 1988. Private collection [sold through Yves Bouvier c. 2013 to]; Dmitry Rybolovlev (b. 1966), Russia and Monaco, sold through [Acquavella Galleries, New York, 2015 to]; A. Jerrold Perenchio (1930–2017), gifted 2025 to; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Selected Bibliography: Thomson, Belinda, editor. Gauguin by Himself. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Malingue, Maurice. Gauguin: Le Peintre et son Oeuvre. Paris: Les Presses de la Cité, 1948.
Brettel, Richard, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey. The Art of Paul Gauguin. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988.
Le Pichon, Yann. Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.
Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964.
Rewald, John. Gauguin. Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938.,

Paul Gauguin
Otahi1893

On view:

Geffen Galleries

Artist or Maker: Paul Gauguin
France, Paris, 1848-1903
Title: Otahi
Date Made: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 19 5/8 × 28 11/16 in. (49.85 × 72.87 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 37 × 3 7/8 in. (69.53 × 93.98 × 9.84 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of A. Jerrold Perenchio
Accession Number: M.2025.64.48
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: The artist (consigned to Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Vente Gauguin, 18 February 1895, lot 17, unsold), probably bought from the artist by Ambroise Vollard, sold 1900 to; Olivier Sainsère (1852–1923), Paris; by descent through the family until at least 1988. Private collection [sold through Yves Bouvier c. 2013 to]; Dmitry Rybolovlev (b. 1966), Russia and Monaco, sold through [Acquavella Galleries, New York, 2015 to]; A. Jerrold Perenchio (1930–2017), gifted 2025 to; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Selected Bibliography: Thomson, Belinda, editor. Gauguin by Himself. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Malingue, Maurice. Gauguin: Le Peintre et son Oeuvre. Paris: Les Presses de la Cité, 1948.
Brettel, Richard, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey. The Art of Paul Gauguin. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988.
Le Pichon, Yann. Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.
Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964.
Rewald, John. Gauguin. Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938.,