Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903
SUR UNE CHAISE
Edgar Degas, Paris (acquired by exchange from the artist in April 1881 and sold by the estate: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, March 26 & 27, 1918, lot 44)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 21, 1919, lot 43
Roy Chalk, New York (acquired by 1963)
Claire Chalk, New York (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1995
Paris, 35 boulevard des Capucines, 4ième exposition de peinture, 1881, no. 34
René Huyghe, Le Carnet de Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1953, p. 228
George Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, no. 46, illustrated p. 21
Merete Bodelsen, "Gauguin, the Collector," in The Burlington Magazine, 1970, p. 593
The Art of Paul Gauguin (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, illustrated p. 12
Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), vol. I, Paris, 2001, no. 63, illustrated in color p. 71
Gauguin and Impressionism (exhibition catalogue), Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen & Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2005-06, illustrated in color p. 114