Gauguin Statue is on Display at HMSG
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PrintOn display through September 30, 1981, is an new Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden acquisition, a rare wooden sculpture by Paul Gauguin, "Cylinder Decorated with Figure of Hina and Two Attendants." It was purchased through the Board of Regents' fund and is one of the few examples of Gauguin's wood sculpture in a public collection outside of Europe.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," June 1981, p. 6.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 30, 1981