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PROPERTY FROM THE MASPRO ART MUSEUM, JAPAN
In addition to having housed the wonderful collection of Western paintings that Christie's is honored to be selling this season in New York and London, the Maspro Art Museum continues to exhibit the extensive and world-class collections of Japanese ceramics and Ukiyo-e of Mr. Takashi Hashiyama.
In 1953 as a student studying at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mr. Takashi Hashiyama founded Maspro Giken Kogyo (now Maspro Denkoh Corporation), manufacturing CB radio appliances. One year later, anticipating the growth in television, the company expanded its scope to include television equipment, and today focuses on broadcast and reception devices, is listed on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges with nearly 1,000 employees, and had a turnover last year of 27 billion yen.
The keen eye of Takashi Hashiyama is evident in each of the works from the collection. From Paul Cézanne's 1877-1879 masterpiece Les grand arbres, Jas de Bouffan (lot 22 in the 4 May Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sale), which so comprehensively prefigures the development of the Cubist language 30 years later by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, to the painterly, bravura brushstrokes of Alfred Sisley's 1879 La manufacture de Sèvre, (lot 23 in the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale), there is a consistent level of sophistication and quality that pervades the entire collection.
Christie's is delighted to have been entrusted with selling the Impressionist, Modern, Victorian and 19th Century European Art from the Maspro Art Museum, and takes pride in being able to present these extraordinary works of art to the public in a series of exciting sales this Spring season.
Edward J. Dolman.
Property from the Maspro Art Museum, Japan
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Deux vaches au pré
Details
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Deux vaches au pré
signed 'P Gauguin' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 10¾ in. (35.2 x 27.2 cm.)
Painted in 1884
Deux vaches au pré
signed 'P Gauguin' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 10¾ in. (35.2 x 27.2 cm.)
Painted in 1884
Provenance
Gallery Storran, London.
Sir Hugh Walpole, London (acquired from the above, 1924).
Leicester Galleries, London.
Viscount Hambleden, London; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1958, lot 39.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald; sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1963, lot 73.
Robert Clark, London.
Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne (circa 1985).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Georges Cinq, Paris, 14 December 1992, lot 37. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1993, lot 34.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Sir Hugh Walpole, London (acquired from the above, 1924).
Leicester Galleries, London.
Viscount Hambleden, London; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1958, lot 39.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald; sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1963, lot 73.
Robert Clark, London.
Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne (circa 1985).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Georges Cinq, Paris, 14 December 1992, lot 37. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1993, lot 34.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
R.H. Davis, Hugh Walpole, London, 1952, pp. 252 and 367.
G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, p. 42, no. 105 (illustrated). D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Paris, 2001, vol. 1, p. 156, no. 139 (illustrated in color).
G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, p. 42, no. 105 (illustrated). D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Paris, 2001, vol. 1, p. 156, no. 139 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, The Art Collection of the late Sir Hugh Walpole, April-May 1945.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Recent Acquisitions, 1958, no. 10.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée du Prieuré, Le chemin de Gauguin, Genèse et Rayonnement, October-December 1985, p. 30, no. 33 (illustrated in color).
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Recent Acquisitions, 1958, no. 10.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée du Prieuré, Le chemin de Gauguin, Genèse et Rayonnement, October-December 1985, p. 30, no. 33 (illustrated in color).