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Paul Gauguin

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Description

  • Paul Gauguin
  • POT À BEURRE
  • inscribed de Vivre
  • painted stoneware
  • height: 20cm., 7 7/8 in.

Provenance

The Hirshhorn Collection, USA
Marie Henry, Le Pouldu, Pont-Aven
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 13th October 1993, lot 12
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent œuvres de Gauguin, 1960, no. 66
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, 1960, no. 145
London, Marlborough Fine Art, 19th and 20th Century Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, 1961, no. 75, illustrated in the catalogue

Catalogue Note

Gauguin executed the present work during his stay at the Auberge Marie Henry in Le Pouldu. Together with Meyer de Haan, Paul Serusier and Charles Filiger, he decorated the dining room of the inn with carvings, paintings and decorative objects, including painted ceramics such as the present work.