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English: Cahier pour Aline, Manao tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching}   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Paul Gauguin  (1848–1903)  wikidata:Q37693 s:fr:Auteur:Paul Gauguin q:en:Paul Gauguin
 
Paul Gauguin
Alternative names
Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description French painter and writer
Date of birth/death 7 June 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Atuona
Work location
Paris, Pont-Aven, Arles, Tahiti
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q37693
Title
English: Cahier pour Aline, Manao tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching}
Date 1893
date QS:P571,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor
medium QS:P186,Q22915256
Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, collections Jacques Doucet
Accession number
NUM MS 227
Credit line Collection Jacques Doucet
Notes
  • Gauguin began this notebook in 1893 for his eldest daughter Aline, then sixteen years old, during his first visit to Tahiti. Unfortunately she died in 1897 from pneumonia before she could receive it. The notebook includes a description of Spirit of the Dead Watching, under the title Genèse d'un tableau ("Genesis of a picture"), accompanied by a watercolor sketch (op. cit. Gamboni). It is here that Gauguin remarked the title Manao tupapau can be understood in two ways (i.e. as "watching the spirit" and "the spirit watching").
  • The text reads (in translation): "To recapitulate: Musical part - undulating horizontal lines - harmonies in orange and blue linked by yellows and violets, from which they derive. The light and the greenish sparks. Literary part - the spirit of a living girl linked with the spirit of Death. Night and Day. This genèse is written for those who always have to know the whys and wherefores. Otherwise the picture is simply a study of a Polynesian nude."
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Source/Photographer Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet
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Cahier pour Aline: Genèse d'un tableau, 1893, Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris

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