Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Etudes de têtes et de personnages
pencil on paper
7 7/8 x 12¼ in. (20 x 31.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1893
Provenance
Daniel de Monfreid, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Mme Huc de Monfreid, Béziers.
By descent from the above to the present owner, circa 1955.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seibu Museum; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, and Fukuoka, Prefectoral Museum, Paul Gauguin, July-December 1969, no. 66 (illustrated).
Perpignan, Musée Rigaud, Le Roussillon, terre artistique au XXéme siècle, 1998.
Lot Essay
To be included in the new edition of the Paul Gauguin catalogue raisonné being prepared by Daniel Wildenstein, under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.