Paul Gauguin
Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango)
1891
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Paul Gauguin
Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango)
1891
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (73 x 45.1 cm.)
Framed: 42 1/8 x 30 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (107 x 78.4 x 6.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.213
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, 1937; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne; Dr. Nils Rohde, Riis, 1937; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris(?); Degas sale, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 1918; Edgar Degas, Paris(?), by purchase 1895; Gauguin collection sale, Hôtel Druout, Paris
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Charles Morice, "Exposition d'Oeuvres Récentes de Paul Gauguin," Paris: E. Moreau et Cie, 1893, p. 19, no. 32.
August Strindberg and Paul Gauguin, "Tableaux et Dessins par Paul Gauguin," Paris: G. Camproger, 1895, p. 9, cat. no. 2.
Tableaux Modernes et Anciens, Aquarelles, Pastels, Dessins, par Bartholomé, Boudin, Brown, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, David, Delacroix, Forain, Forestier, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Le Greco, Ingres, Legros, Manet, Millet, Morisot, Perronneau, Pissarro, Puvis de Chavannes, Raffet, Renoir, Ricard, Rousseau, Serret, Sisley, Van Gogh, Zandomeneghi, Oeuvres Importantes de Delacroix et de Ingres, composant la Collection Edgar Degas, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 27, 1918, lot. No. 49, p. 22. (Published as "Jeune Tahitienne")
André Fontainas and Louis Vauxcelles, "Histoire Générale de l'Art Français de la Révolution à Nos Jours," Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, pp. 215, 340, p. 215, ill. (Published as "Figure")
Jean de Rotonchamp, "Paul Gauguin 1848-1903," Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie, 1925, p. 137, no. 32.
"Paul Gauguin: Hans Arbeten I Skandinavisk ägo Utstälda I Nationalmuseum," Oslo, Norway: Sjunde Utställningen, 1926, p. 15, no. 66, (Published as "Tahitipike med en rød frukt I hånden/Vahine no te Vi")
"Art News Annual," 1938, vol. XXXVI, no. 26, p. 171, ill. (Published as "Tahitian Girl")
John Rewald, "Gauguin," Paris: Hyperion, 1938, pp. 148, 167, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, pp. 81-82, 115. (Published as "Behold the Woman")
Maurice Malingue, "Gauguin," Monaco: Les Documents d'Art, 1943, pp. 92, 155, p. 92, ill. (Published as "Femme au Mango: 'Vahine No Te Vi'")
Jane Watson Crane, "Baltimore Shows French Art," "The Washington Post," August 17, 1947, p. L5, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
E.M. Benson and Gertrude Rosenthal "Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1948, pp. 39, 63, no. 78, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Maurice Malingue, "Gauguin: Le Peintre et Son Oeuvre," Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1948, no. 181, ill.
Lee Van Dovski, "Paul Gauguin oder die Flucht vor der Zivilisation," Olten and Bern, Delphi, 1948, p. 349, no. 275.
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin, and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 9, 12, no. 16, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
"Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, Collectors," "Art News," vol. XLVIII, no. 9, January 1950, pp. 39, 40, ill. p. 39. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
"Paintings by the Impressionists and Post Impressionists," Richmond: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1950. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Memorial Exhibition," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," January-February, 1950, vol. XIII, nos. 4, 5, p. 13. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Clive Bell, "Modern French Painting: The Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1951, pp. 20-21, p. 21, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Adelyn D. Breeskin, "From Maryland Collections: Brilliant Facets of French 19th-Century Art," "The Art Digest," November 15, 1951, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 11, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Gertrude Rosenthal, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, pp. 8, 12, 13, 42, no. 153, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Gauguin's 'Woman with Mango'," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," March-April 1952, vol. XV, no. 6, pp. 1-6, p. 2, cover page, ill.
Charles Estienne, "Gauguin," Lausanne: Skira, 1953, pp. 54-55, 112, p. 54, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
John Rewald, "Modern Fakes of Modern Pictures," "Art News," March 1953, vol. 52, no. 1, p. 17, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Henri Dorra, "Paul Gauguin: His Place in the Meeting of East and West," Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1954, no. 26, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti/Vahine No Te Vi")
Paul L. Grigaut, "Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin," Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1954, pp. 56, 65, 71, no. 111, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Museum Opens 25-Year Show," "The Baltimore Sun," May 29, 1955, p. 10. (Published as "Girl with Mango")
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, pp. 13, 25, 29, no. 28, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Howard Devree, "About Art and Artists: Works by Matisse, Picasso and Others from Cone Collection Displayed," "The New York Times," January 25, 1955, p. 23.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "A Picture Book: 200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 54, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Gauguin: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York City, Inc.," New York: Wildenstein and Company, 1956, pp. 18, 49, no. 33, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Stuart Preston, "Is Art Criticism Necessary?," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," June 1956, vol. XIX, no. 5, p. 9, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
John Rewald, "Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, pp. 511, 601, ill. p. 511.
"The Cone Wing," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," February 1957, p. 5, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"The Cone Wing," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 1957, p. 5, ill. p. 5. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Leslie Judd Portner, "Baltimore Museum Opens New Cone Wing," "The Christian Science Monitor," March 23, 1957, p. 10, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Leslie Judd Portner, "Worthy Home for Cone Collection," "The Washington Post and Times Herald," August 25, 1957, p. E7. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Theodore Rousseau, Jr., "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959, pp. 44-45, ill. p. 45. (Published as "Woman with a Mango")
Eloise Spaeth, "American Art Museums and Galleries: An Introduction to Looking," New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960, pp. 51, 272. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1962, pp. 210, 259. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Georges Wildenstein, "Gauguin, vol. I," Paris: Les Beaux Arts, Editions d'Etudes et de Documents, 1964, pp. 178-179, no. 449, ill.
"Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905)," New York: Wildenstein and Company, 1965, no. 64, ill. (Published as "La Femme au Mango")
Herbert and Marjorie Katz, "Museums, U.S.A.," New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1965, p. 31. (Published as "Woman with a Mango")
K. R. Greenfield, "The Museum: Its First Half Century," "Annual I," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966, p. 82, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Alan Moorehead, "The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840," London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966, p. x, n.p, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 10, 18, 66, no. 24, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Erwin O. Christensen, "A Guide to Art Museums in the United States," New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968, p. 114. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, p. 84. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"One Hundred Years of Impressionism - A Tribute to Durand-Ruel," New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1970, no. 80, ill. (Published as "Le Femme au Mango")
Norio Awazu, "Gauguin: L'Art Moderne du Monde," Tokyo: Shueisha, 1970, p. 143, ill.
Anne Poulet, "Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" New York: Wildenstein, 1972, cat. no. 32, ill. (Published as "Woman with a Mango: Tehura")
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, no. 8. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Shirley Hochman, "Invitation to Art," New York: Sterling Publishing Co, 1974, pp. 3, 32-35, 40, p. 33, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Atsushi Miyakawa, "Shincho Art Library 30: Gauguin," Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1974, pl. 15, ill.
Richard S. Field, "Paul Gauguin: The Paintings of the First Voyage to Tahiti," New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977, p. 336, no. 69.
Per Amann, "Paul Gauguin," Ramerding, Germany: Berghaus, 1980, p. 61, cover page, p. 61, ill. (Published as "Vahine No Te/Frau mit Mango")
Israel Rosen, "The Cone Sisters: Myths, Realities and Some Conjectures," "Helicon Nine: the Journal of Women's Arts and Letters," Winter 1983, no. 9, pp. 83, 85, p. 83, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
William R. Johnston, "The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934," Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 1984, p. 48. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Eva May Nunnelley Hamilton, Eleanor Noss Whitney and Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, "Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies," New York: West Publishing Company, 1985, Table of Contents, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 152-153, 190, 200, ill. p. 152.
Kunio Motoe and Makoto Ooka, "Art Gallery 4: Gauguin," Tokyo: Shueisha, 1986, pp. 49, 99, no. 47, ill.
Jacqueline and Maurice Guillaud, "Matisse: Le Rythme et la Ligne," Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, p. 311, ill.
Richard Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, Charles F. Stuckey and Peter Zegers, eds., "The Art of Paul Gauguin," Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1988, pp. 212-213, 215, 259-261, 519, no. 143, cover page, ill.
René Huyghe, "Gauguin," New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988, pp. 58, 96, p. 58, ill.
Martin Kunz, ed., "Von Matisse bis Picasso: Hommage an Siegfried Rosengart," Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1988, pp. 21-22, p. 22, ill. (Published as "La femme au mango/Vahine no te vi")
Richard Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, Charles F. Stuckey, "Gauguin," Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1989, pp. 219, 221, 223, 260-262, 494, no. 143, ill.
Françoise Cachin, "Gauguin," Paris: Hachette, 1989, p. 257, n.p., ill. (Published as "La Femme aux mangos")
Françoise Caçhin, "Gauguin 'Ce Malgré Moi de Sauvage'," Paris: Gallimard, 1989, pp. 16, 81, 193, cover page, ill. (Published as "La Femme au mango")
Douglas Ford, "The Peoples of North America: The Pacific Islanders," New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989, p. 31, ill. (Published as "Woman of Tahiti")
Fujikawa Galleries, Inc., "Paul Gauguin," Tokyo: Fujikawa Galleries, 1990, no. 35, ill.
Ronald Bryden, "Searching for Gauguin's Tahiti," "The New York Times," December 22, 1991, p. 8, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Bernadette Ramdall, "Gauguin's Mistress," "The New York Times," January 26, 1992, p. 28, ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Modern-Art Exhibit Typifies Symbiotic Relationship," "Beaumont Enterprise," December 17, 1993, p.4. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Van Gogh to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art," "MFA Today," November/December 1993, pp. 1, 3, ill. pp. 1, 3. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Susan Chadwick, "An Eye for Art," "The Houston Post," November 21, 1993, p. 16. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Susan Chadwick, "MFA Makes Room for Baltimore Art Treasures," "The Houston Post," June 2, 1993, p. D1, ill. p. D1. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Susan Chadwick, "Sisters Collected Stunning Works of Impressionists," "The Houston Post," November 27, 1993, p. F-1, ill. p. F-1. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Carol Christensen, "The Painting Materials and Technique of Paul Gauguin," in "Studies in the History of Art, Monograph Series II: Conservation Research, vol. 41," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1993, pp. 84-85, fig. 15, ill.
Howard Greenfeld, "First Impressions: Paul Gauguin," New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc., 1993, pp. 60-61, 92, p. 61, ill.
Patricia C. Johnson, "MFA to Exhibit Cone Collection," "The Houston Chronicle," June 2, 1993, Section D, ill. (Published as "Woman of the Mango")
Belinda Thomson, ed., "Gauguin by Himself," New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993, pp. 198, 308, pl. 156, ill.
Carol Vogel, "The Art Market," "The New York Times," June 4, 1993, n.p., ill. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Jacqueline and Claude Held, "Ombres et Lumières," Paris: l'École des Loisirs, 1994, pp. 10-11, cover page, p. 11, ill.
Andrew Patner, "Loyal Citizens of Baltimore," "Art & Antiques," June 1995, vol. XVIII, no. 6, pp. 66-67, p. 67, ill.
Ann Dumas, "Degas as a Collector," London: The National Gallery, 1996, pp. 48, 52, 65, 76, no. 59, cover page, ill.
Bennard B. Perlman, "Treasures Worth Waiting in Line to See," "The Baltimore Sun," July 9, 1996, p. 11A. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, pp. 132-133, no. 69, ill.
Emma Wilkins and Dalya Alberge, "Demand for Degas Beats National Gallery Record," "The Times of London," May 23, 1996, n.p. (Published as "Woman with a Mango")
"The National Gallery Report," April 1996-March 1997, p. 42, ill.
Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Françoise Cachin, Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Richard Kendall, Mari Kálmán Maller, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Theodore Reff, and Barbara Stern Shapiro, "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," new York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 56, 226-227, 229, 350, fig.305, ill. (Published as "Woman of the Mango/Vahine no te vi")
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Julie A. Steiner, Ann Dumas, Rebecca A. abinow, and Gary Tinterow, "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue," New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, p. 56, no. 490, ill.
Henri Loyrette, "Quand Degas collectionnait," "L'Oeil," October 1997, no. 489, ill. p. 42.
Souren Melikian, "The Collector: Degas We Never Knew," "International Herald Tribune," October 4-5, 1997, p. 9. (Published as "Woman of the Mango")
Kathryn Warner and Eve Warner, "Private Collection of Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum," "New York-Pennsylvania Collector," December 1997, p. 24C. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
"Paul Gauguin Das verlorene Paradies," "Art, Das Kunstmagazin," Nr. 6, June, 1998, p. 20, cover page, ill.
Diethelm Kaiser, "Tafel der Wonnen: auf den Spuren von Paul Gauguin," Köln: Dumont, 1998, pp. 103, 108, ill. p. 103.
John O'Brian, "Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse," Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 81, 277. (Published as "Woman with Mango")
Sona K. Johnston and William R. Johnston, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse," London: Scala Publishers, 2000, pp. 32, 132-133, 155, no. 47, ill.
Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer and Eleanor Noss Whitney, "Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies 8th ed.," Stamford, CT: Thomson Learning, 2000, ch. 3, ill.
Charles Darwent, "Double Vision," "The Independent," June 17, 2001, p. 21.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 170-171, pl. 54, ill.
"Smartish Pace," April 2004, Issue Ten, cover page, ill.
Holland Cotter, "Gauguin's Paradise: Only Part Tahitian and All a Fantasy," "The New York Times," March 5, 2004, pp. B31, B33, ill. p. B31. (Published as "Woman with a Mango")
George T. M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Thory, "Gauguin Tahiti," Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts Publications, 2004, pp. 35, 292-293, 359, 367, no. 81, ill.
Marco Goldin, "Gauguin Van Gogh: L'avventura del colore nuovo," Conegliano: Linea d'ombra Libri, 2005, p. 273, ill.
Chaoying Wu, ed., "Gauguin Elsewhere," Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Art Museum, 2010, p. 340, fig. 11, ill.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 24, 63, 75, 76, pl. 41, ill.
Karen Rosenberg, "What They Loved and What They Bought," "The New York Times," May 5, 2011, p. C30. (Published as "Woman of the Mango")
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 30
Hargrove, June. Gauguin. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2017. p. 241, ill.
Christie’s New York. The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, Vol. 1. May 8, 2018
Homburg, Cornelia and Christopher Riopelle, eds. Gauguin: Portraits. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada; London: National Gallery, London, 2019.
Le Foll, Josephine. L'Impressionisme. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2020.
Christie's: Important Pocketwatches and Wristwatches. Monday 15 May 2006, Geneva, 20, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Top center in paint, "Vahine no te Vi" Top left in paint, "P Gauguin - 92" Verso: The canvas has been wax lined and there are no visible inscriptions.
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