Details
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Idole à la coquille
signed with initials on the top 'PGO'--stamped and numbered on the front 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE 1/6'--bronze with brown patina and shell Height: 13½in. (34.3cm.)
Original ironwood version executed in 1893; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of six
Idole à la coquille
signed with initials on the top 'PGO'--stamped and numbered on the front 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE 1/6'--bronze with brown patina and shell Height: 13½in. (34.3cm.)
Original ironwood version executed in 1893; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of six
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, Great Neck, N.Y.; sale, Sotheby Park Bernet, Inc., New York, Dec. 8-9, 1965, lot 20
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, May 3, 1977, lot 610 (acquired by the present owner)
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, May 3, 1977, lot 610 (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
R. Rey, 'Les Bois sculptés de Paul Gauguin', Art et Décoration, vol. LIII, Feb., 1928, pp. 57-64
A. Alexandre, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1930, p. 210 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
R. Puig, Paul Gauguin, G.D. de Monfreid et leurs amis, Perpignan, 1958, p. 41
M. Bodelson, 'Gauguin and the Marquesan God', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March, 1961, p. 167-180
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 226, no. 99 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
E. Fezzi and F. Minervino, "Noa Noa e il primo viaggio a Tahiti de Gauguin, Milan, 1974, no. 201 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
ed. N. Wadley, Noa Noa, Gauguin's Tahiti, Salem, New Hampshire, 1985, p. 110, no. 67 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
ed. M. Prather and C. Stuckey, Gauguin, A Retrospective, New York, 1987, p. 187, no. 59 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
R. Brettell, The Art of Paul Gauguin, New York, 1988, p. 274, no. 151 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
F. Cachin, Gauguin, Paris, 1988, p. 178, no. 193 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
A. Alexandre, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1930, p. 210 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
R. Puig, Paul Gauguin, G.D. de Monfreid et leurs amis, Perpignan, 1958, p. 41
M. Bodelson, 'Gauguin and the Marquesan God', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March, 1961, p. 167-180
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 226, no. 99 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
E. Fezzi and F. Minervino, "Noa Noa e il primo viaggio a Tahiti de Gauguin, Milan, 1974, no. 201 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
ed. N. Wadley, Noa Noa, Gauguin's Tahiti, Salem, New Hampshire, 1985, p. 110, no. 67 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
ed. M. Prather and C. Stuckey, Gauguin, A Retrospective, New York, 1987, p. 187, no. 59 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
R. Brettell, The Art of Paul Gauguin, New York, 1988, p. 274, no. 151 (original wood sculpture illustrated)
F. Cachin, Gauguin, Paris, 1988, p. 178, no. 193 (original wood sculpture illustrated)