Paul Gauguin

L'Abreuvoir - II

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June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

By Land and By Sea: The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

L'Abreuvoir - II

signed p Gauguin and dated 85 (lower left)

oil on canvas

46.4 by 55.5cm., 18¼ by 21¾in.

Framed: 69.5 by 78.8cm., 27⅜ by 31in.

Painted in 1885.

(possibly) Claude Émile Schuffenecker, Paris

(possibly) Eugène Blot, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10th May 1906, lot 30)

Mme. Besnard, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5th June 1923, lot 61)

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 4th July 1962, lot 73

Truman Collection (purchased at the above sale)

William B. Findlay Galleries, Chicago

James H. Clark, Dallas, Texas (acquired by circa 1964)

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (sold: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 26th October 1967, lot 21)

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15th June 1991, lot 33

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

(possibly) René Huyghe, Le Carnet de Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1952, p. 228
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, no. 159, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin. Premier Itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l’œuvre peint (1873-1888), Paris, 2001, vol. I, no. 203, illustrated in colour p. 240
Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin, A Savage in the Making, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2002, vol. I, no. 203, illustrated p. 230 (titled Watering Place II)

(possibly) Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'automne, 1906, no. 168 or 170
(possibly) Munich, Galerie W. Zimmermann, V. Van Gogh und P. Gauguin, 1908, no. 20