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La danse du feu ou Le diable parle
Details
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
La danse du feu ou Le diable parle
signed 'Paul Gauguin' (lower left)
pencil on paper
6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (16.2 x 22.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1891-1893
La danse du feu ou Le diable parle
signed 'Paul Gauguin' (lower left)
pencil on paper
6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (16.2 x 22.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1891-1893
Provenance
Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris (by 1942).
Shepherd Gallery, New York (circa 1983).
Private collection, New York.
Shepherd Gallery, New York (circa 1983).
Private collection, New York.
Literature
J. Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, p. 28, no. 41 (illustrated, p. 29; titled Tahitians Watching a Group of Dancers).
J. Teilhet-Fisk, Paradise Reviewed: An Interpretation of Gauguin's Polynesian Symbolism, Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 65 (titled Tahitians Watching a Group of Dancers).
Z. Amishai-Maisels, Gauguin's Religious Themes, Ph.D. Diss., The Hebrew University, 1969, pp. 364, 394 and 537 (illustrated, fig. 157; dated circa 1891-1892 and titled Ritual Dance).
R. Brettell, F. Cachin, C. Frèches-Thory and C.F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 223.
J. Teilhet-Fisk, Paradise Reviewed: An Interpretation of Gauguin's Polynesian Symbolism, Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 65 (titled Tahitians Watching a Group of Dancers).
Z. Amishai-Maisels, Gauguin's Religious Themes, Ph.D. Diss., The Hebrew University, 1969, pp. 364, 394 and 537 (illustrated, fig. 157; dated circa 1891-1892 and titled Ritual Dance).
R. Brettell, F. Cachin, C. Frèches-Thory and C.F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 223.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marcel Guiot, Gauguin: Aquarelles, monotypes, dessins, May-June 1942, p. 39, no. 86 (titled Fête Maorie).
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Paul Gauguin digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
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