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Paul Gauguin (artist)
French, 1848 - 1903
The Invocation, 1903
oil on canvas
Overall: 65.5 x 75.6 cm (25 13/16 x 29 3/4 in.) framed: 96.5 x 105.4 cm (38 x 41 1/2 in.)
Gift from the Collection of John and Louise Booth in memory of their daughter Winkie
1976.63.1
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1924Cheney, Sheldon. A Primer of Modern Art. New York, 1924:55, repro.
1938Scheyer, Ernst. The Ralph Harman Booth Collection, Grosse Point - Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, 1938:unpaginated.
1956Wildenstein, G. "L'Idéologie et l'Esthétique dans deux tableaus-clés de Gauguin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI période, no. 47 (January - April 1956):150, repro.
1964Wildenstein 1964, no. 635.
1977"Acquisitions of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art by Museums," The Burlington Magazine CXIX, no. 896, supplement (November 1977): 802, repro.
1977Richard, Paul. "A Gift to the Gallery: 'The Invocation,' a not so superios Gauguin," The Washington Post 7 March 1977:B11
1981Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Paris, 1981:no. 456, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 170, repro.

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