2-652-612 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Manao Tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watches)', c.1892, (1946). Print after a painting, 'Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau)', of Gauguin's young Tahitian wife Teha'amana lying naked. Gauguin said the title may refer to either the girl imagining the ghost, or the ghost imagining her. From The Etchings of the French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries, by Edward T. Chase. [The Hyperion Press, Paris, 1946]