ID: 700007587 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007587	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Head with Horns (sculpture (visual works); Paul Gaugin (French painter and printmaker, 1848-1903); 1895 - 1897; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2002.18)

Note: Long thought to be lost, Head with Horns was known only from two photographs that Gauguin pasted into his personal copy of "Noa Noa," a manuscript written by the artist in collaboration with the poet Charles Morice and illustrated between 1896 and 1898. Untitled and not referenced in the text, the sculpture has eluded precise interpretation. In European art, a horned head is often associated with images of the devil or of various animals or mythological creatures such as a faun, a bull, or Pan. In the Polynesian islands, however, the horns of this sculpture resemble a style of hair meant to express power -- bunched in knots at either side of the head -- worn by young men in an area near where Gauguin stayed from 1891.

Titles:

Head with Horns (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 1895 - 1897

Creator Display:

Paul Gaugin (French painter and printmaker, 1848-1903) [preferred,JPGM]

sculptor Gauguin, Paul (French painter and printmaker, 1848-1903) [500011421]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2002.18

Display Materials: Wood with traces of polychromy

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

	polychromy [300247962]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

Dimensions: Object (head): H: 22 x W: 22.8 x D: 12 cm (8 11/16 x 9 x 4 3/4 in.) Object (base): H: 20 x W: 25 x D: 17.5 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Symbolist [300021514] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

	Post-Impressionist [300021508] (style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	heads (representations) [300262520]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	Paul Gauguin (French painter and printmaker, 1848-1903) [500011421]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Head with Horns	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) accessed 27 February 2014

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) accessed 27 February 2014