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Paul Gauguin

Maori assis

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collection, Chicago

Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903


Maori assis

charcoal and pastel on paper

31½ by 24⅝ in.

80 by 62.7 cm.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Francisco Durrio, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Lucas Lichtenhan, Basel (acquired from the above in 1930)
Walther Geiser, Basel (acquired from the above in 1931)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne
Sotheby's London, 31 July 1946, lot 108
E.V. Thaw, New York
B.C. Holland, Chicago
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired circa 1963)
Thence by descent in May 2020 to the present owner
Paris, Association Paris-Amérique Latine, Exposition rétrospective: Hommage au génial artiste franco-péruvien Gauguin, 1926, no. 27, n.p., illustrated 
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin 1848-1903, 1928, no. 199, p. 28 (titled Maori)
Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, 1928, no. 169, p. 14 (titled Maori)
London, Leicester Galleries, The Durrio Collection of Works by Gauguin, 1931, no. 36, p. 8 (titled Etude d'homme)
Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Paul Gauguin, 1988, pp. 299 & 301