Property from an Important Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Projet de décoration pour une bibliothèque
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903
Projet de décoration pour une bibliothèque
signed Gauguin and inscribed stupidit (upper right)
gouache, watercolor and charcoal with pen and ink on paper
18½ by 24⅞ in.
47 by 62.5 cm.
Executed circa 1888-90.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Sam Josefowitz, Lausanne
Sotheby's London, 28 March 1973, lot 124 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Singapore (acquired from the above)
Gallery Michoniku, Ishikawa-ken
Sotheby’s London, 28 June 1989, lot 303 (consigned by the above)
Gallery Fantasia, Tokyo (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Tokyo
Sotheby’s London, 21 October 1998, lot 17 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Denise Delouche, Gauguin et la Bretagne, Rennes, 1996, p. 54
Henri Dorra, "Von Bretonischen Spassben zum grossen Dilemma der Menschheit: Zur Erinnerung an Merete Bodelse," Paul Gauguin: Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti; Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne, Tulln an der Donau, 2001, pp. 80-81, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90, pp. 121, illustrated in color (as Decorative project for a Bookcase)
Henri Dorra, The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity, Berkeley, 2007, pp. 74-77, 92-93, 112, 245 & 335, illustrated (as Design for a Carved Bookcase and dated 1888)
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