Lot 725
  • 725

PAUL GAUGUIN | Environs de Paris

Estimate
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Paul Gauguin
  • Environs de Paris
  • signed in French and dated 1880
  • gouache on paper
  • 22.6 by 34.7 cm; 8 ⅞ by 13 ⅝ in.

Provenance

Mette Gauguin, Copenhagen (the artist's wife) 
Pola Gauguin, Copenhagen (by descent from the above)
M. Halfdan Nobel Roede (acquired from the above in 1910)
Christie's, London, 30 November 1976, Lot 31
Galerie Hendrik Jan van Wisselingh & co, Haarlem (acquired circa 1985)
Private Collection, France
Galerie des Arts, Nimes (acquired circa 1999-2000)
Private Collection, France (and sold: Christie's, London, 28 June 2017, Lot 215)
Acquired at the above sale by the present Asian private collector

Exhibited

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Statens 59. årlige kunstutstilling, 1946, no. 111, illustrated in the catalogue
Dusseldorf, Galerie Grosshennig, Deutscher und Franzosischer Meisterwerke, April - July 1982, illustrated in the catalogue 
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée départemental du Prieuré, Le chemin de Gauguin, genèse et rayonnement, 1985-86, no. 30, illustrated in the catalogue 

Condition

Not examined out of its frame, the work is overall in good condition.
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