Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)1892
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Completed early in Paul Gauguin’s first Tahitian sojourn, this landscape shows the artist grappling with representing an unfamiliar environment. Rather than documenting botanical species scientifically, Gauguin focused on the artistic potential of their variegated colors, textures, and forms. The human figure in the distance and the dog roaming through fallen branches activate the landscape and establish a sense of scale.
This is one of thirty-five works that comprise the Winterbotham Collection. Click here to learn more about the collection.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 68 × 90.7 cm (26 3/4 × 35 11/16 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 13 exhibitions
Provenance
- Marius de Zayas, New York; sold his sale, The Anderson Galleries, New York, March 23–24, 1923, lot 83 for $3,000 to the Art Institute; purchased by the Art Institute with funds provided by Joseph Winterbotham for the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1923.
Exhibitions
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, November 1921.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933.
- San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, June 8–July 8, 1934.
- Des Moines Art Center, 19th and 20th Century European and American Art, June–July 1948.
- Lowe Art Gallery, The University of Miami, 19th and 20th Century French Painting, March 15–April 9, 1952; travelled to Athens, The University of Georgia, April 14–May 19, 1952.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12–March 29, 1959; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21–May 31, 1959.
- Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Anniversary Loan Exhibition: Treasures in America, January 13–March 5, 1961, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22–August 25, 1974, no cat. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh in Arles, October 3–December 30, 1984, no cat. no. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Insho-ha ten (The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago), October 18–December 17, 1985; traveled to Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, May 1–July 31, 1988; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, September 17–December 11, 1988; Paris, Grand Palais, January 10–April 20, 1989 (Chicago only, supplement).
- Niigata Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, Shikago Bijutsukan ten : kindai kaiga no 100-nen (Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago), April 20–May 29, 1994; travelled to Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002; travelled to Amsterdam, The Van Gogh Museum, February 2–June 9, 2002.
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Paul Gauguin: The Other and I. Apr. 28-Aug. 6, 2023.
