Lot 40
  • 40

Paul Gauguin

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Gauguin
  • La femme aux mangos - fatiguĂ© (Mongan/Kornfeld/Joachim 44)
  • woodcut
  • visible sheet: 156 by 283mm 6 1/8 by 11 1/8 in
Woodcut, 1898, inscribed 'No. 10' in pencil, from the first edition (A) of approximately 30 impressions printed by the artist, on thin Japan paper

Provenance

Ex. coll. Gustave Fayet, Béziers, thence by direct descent to the present owner

Condition

A wide margin visible at top, laid on support sheet with a mount attached to sheet at recto (most probably as mounted by Gustave Fayet at the time of acquisition), with associated flattened creases and small air bubbles in the image, scattered mottled foxing, paper discoloration, small areas of paper loss at the sheet edges, unframed.
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