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IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF ARNOLD GUMOWITZ AND THE ANNE ULNICK FOUNDATION
AFTER PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Tête d'une tahitienne
Details
AFTER PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Tête d'une tahitienne
inscribed and stamped with foundry mark 'S.C C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back)
partially painted bronze with brown patina
Height: 8 ½ in. (20.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890; this bronze version cast at a later date
Tête d'une tahitienne
inscribed and stamped with foundry mark 'S.C C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back)
partially painted bronze with brown patina
Height: 8 ½ in. (20.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Anon. sale, Trosby Galleries, Palm Beach, 7 February 1968, lot 76-B.
Frederic W. Ziv Trust, Cincinnati (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 2002, lot 143.
Acquired at the above sale by Arnold and Anne Ulnick Gumowitz.
Frederic W. Ziv Trust, Cincinnati (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 2002, lot 143.
Acquired at the above sale by Arnold and Anne Ulnick Gumowitz.
Literature
R. Puig, Paul Gauguin, G.D. de Monfreid et leurs amis, Perpignan, 1958 (carved wood version illustrated; titled Masque de Tahitienne Tehura).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 224, no. 98 (carved wood version illustrated).
G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 12 (carved wood version illustrated).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 224, no. 98 (carved wood version illustrated).
G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 12 (carved wood version illustrated).
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