After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
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After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Cylindre représentant le déesse Hina

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After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Cylindre représentant le déesse Hina
signed with initials 'PGo' (on the top); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '5/6 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the rim)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1892; this bronze version cast in 1959
Provenance
Grace Vogel Aldworth, Chicago.
Anon. sale, Bonhams, New York, 19 November 2007, lot 1030.
Private collection, California (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, Paris, 20 May 2011, lot 48.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
R. Rey, "Les bois sculptés de Paul Gauguin," Art et Décoration, vol. LIII, February 1928, p. 63 (wood version illustrated).
A. Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre, Paris, 1930, p. 239 (wood version illustrated).
C. Kunstler, Gauguin: Peintre maudit, Paris, 1934, pp. 136-141 (wood version illustrated).
R. Puig, Paul Gauguin, G.D. de Monfreid et leurs amis, Perpignan, 1958, p. 42 (wood version illustrated).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 220, no. 95 (wood version illustrated, p. 221; titled Cylinder Decorated with the Figure of Hina).

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