Lot 107
  • 107

Paul Gauguin

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Gauguin
  • Tetua
  • Titled (upper right); signed Paul Gauguin (on the verso)
  • Pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 6 1/2 by 4 1/4 in.
  • 16.5 by 10.7 cm

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Quatre Chemins-Editart, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1954

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Gauguin: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., 1956, no. 65
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago & New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, 1959, no. 83, illustrated in the catalogue
Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Gauguin, 1998, no. 71, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic, 2002, no. 52, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Bernard Dorival, Carnet de Tahiti: Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1954, illustrated p. 41
John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, illustrated pl. 32
John Rewald, Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York, 1978, illustrated p. 493

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream colored paper which has been hinged to a window mat mount at two places on the top edge of the verso. The left edge is deckled and four pindot losses remain from where the sheet was bound in a notebook. Bearing the numbers 41 (upper right on verso) and 81 (lower right on verso). The sheet is otherwise a little dirty and time darkened and the ink is slightly faded, otherwise fine.
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