Paul Gauguin
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
1897139.1 x 374.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, upper right: P. Gauguin / 1897
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 561
Literature
Torsten Gunnarsson (et al.), Impressionism and the north, Stockholm, 2002, p. 239
Elise Eckermann, Out of sight, out of mind? Paul Gauguin's struggle for recognition after his departure for the South Seas in 1895 in , Current Issues in 19th-Century Art, Zwolle; Amsterdam, 2007, pp 168-187, fig. 4
Joachim Pissarro, Pioneering modern painting, New York/London, 2005, fig. 1
Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America, Milano, 2006, pp. 204-205
Provenance
1898, sent by the artist in Tahiti to Georges Daniel de Monfreid (born 1856 - died 1929), Paris
consigned by Monfreid and his agent to Ambroise Vollard (born 1867 - died 1939), Paris
1901, sold by Vollard to Gabriel Frizeau (born 1870 - died 1938), Bordeaux
probably 1913, sold by Frizeau to the Galérie Barbazanges, Paris
before 1920, sold by Barbazanges to J. B. Stang, Oslo
1935, probably sold by Stang to Alfred Gold, Berlin and Paris
1936, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York
1936, sold by the Harriman Gallery to the MFA
Other works by Paul Gauguin
Winter
1885
1885
Breton Fishermen
1888
1888
Christ on the Mount of Olives
1889
1889
Roses and Statuette
1890
1890
Self-Portrait Dedicated to Charles Laval
1888
1888