Lot 351
  • 351

After Paul Gauguin

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • After Paul Gauguin
  • La Petite Parisienne
  • Inscribed P. Gauguin
  • Bronze
  • Height: 10 1/2 in.
  • 26.7 cm

Provenance

Harold Decker Studios, Inc., Virginia
Acquired from the above in the 1980s

Literature

Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, no. 4(II), illustrations of the wood and another bronze example pp. 112-3

Condition

Affixed to a base at one point on underside. Dark reddish-brown patina. Some dust in crevices, consistent with age and handling. This work is in good condition.
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