PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Cave Canis and Titre pour 'Le Sourire' (Beware of the Dog and Headpiece for 'Le Sourire') (Mongan, Kornfeld, Joachim 69)

细节

PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Cave Canis and Titre pour 'Le Sourire' (Beware of the Dog and Headpiece for 'Le Sourire') (Mongan, Kornfeld, Joachim 69)
monotype and a woodcut, 1899-1900, on one sheet of wove paper, a unique combination, M., K., J.'s state II (of IIIc), titled and inscribed in the monotype 'A Monsieur Coulon Paul Gauguin', the full sheet (the edges slightly unevenly trimmed), minor surface soiling, several skillfully repaired splits and tears, the right corners restored, laid down on wove, otherwise in good condition, framed
S. 15 9/16 x 11¾ in. (395 x 298 mm.)

来源

Mme Huguette Berès; sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1966, lot 98.
Paul Proutée, catalogue Primatice, 1968, no. 192.
The Honorable Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Boston.
Anon. sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 1979, lot 417.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 18, 1982.
Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982.

出版

R. Field, Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, p. 88, no. 63 (illustrated).

展览

The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 14, no. 12 (illustrated in color).

拍品专文

The woodcut above the monotype on the present work is a head piece for Sourire, the monthly broadsheet which Gauguin wrote, illustrated and published for nine months in 1899. The journal was largely devoted to criticism of the colonial administration in Tahiti, which for Gauguin symbolized the evils of the modern world.

This transfer monotype, a technique invented by Gauguin and based on the carbon paper principle, continues this theme. The dedicatee, Mr. Coulon, was the publisher of another satirical journal, Les Guepes, to which Gauguin had contributed. The central sleeping figure is Gustave Gallet, the colonial governor at whose feet stands the eponymous dog, a dog with the artist's own features. In his monotype Gauguin is warning the local authority that he has assumed a watchdog role.