Etude pour L'idole (recto) and (verso)

Details

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Etude pour L'idole (recto) and (verso)
pencil on paper
7¾ x 6½ in. (19.7 x 16.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1891-1893

Provenance

Emil Français, Paris (by 1950).
By descent from the above to the late owner.

Literature

J. Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, p. 28, no. 39 (illustrated, pl. 39).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Marcel Guiot, PGO Documents Tahiti 1891-1893, May-June 1942, p. 32, no. 49 (illustrated, p. 33).
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Gauguin, summer 1949, p. 75, no. 69.

Lot Essay

This drawing is a study for the painting L'idole (Rewald, p. 140). The same figure in reverse appears in the painting Et l'or de leurs corps, 1901 (Rewald, p. 145; Musée de Louvre, Paris) and also in a woodcut (Guérin, no. 35.)

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