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PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGOUS PRIVATE COLLECTION, CANADA
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Autoportrait avec études de femmes et de chats (recto); Etudes de têtes, de mains et d'un enfant (verso)
Details
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Autoportrait avec études de femmes et de chats (recto); Etudes de têtes, de mains et d'un enfant (verso)
charcoal and black Conté crayon on paper (recto and verso)
8 x 12 ¼ in. (19.9 x 31 cm.)
Drawn circa 1889
Autoportrait avec études de femmes et de chats (recto); Etudes de têtes, de mains et d'un enfant (verso)
charcoal and black Conté crayon on paper (recto and verso)
8 x 12 ¼ in. (19.9 x 31 cm.)
Drawn circa 1889
Provenance
Marie Henry, Le Pouldu and Kerfany, France (circa 1890).
Ida Cochennec and Léa Lollichon, France (by descent from the above, circa 1945); sale, Hôtel Drouot , Paris, 16 March 1959, lot 110.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 5 December 1979, lot 107.
Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Habsburg, Feldman, New York, 12 November 1989, lot 24.
Acquired by the late owner, circa 2000.
Ida Cochennec and Léa Lollichon, France (by descent from the above, circa 1945); sale, Hôtel Drouot , Paris, 16 March 1959, lot 110.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 5 December 1979, lot 107.
Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Habsburg, Feldman, New York, 12 November 1989, lot 24.
Acquired by the late owner, circa 2000.
Literature
M. Malingue, ed. Lettres à sa femme et ses amis: Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1946, pp. 199-200.
K. Mittelstädt, Paul Gauguin: Self-Portraits, Oxford, 1968, p. 61 (detail illustrated, pl. 19; titled Self-portrait, Gauguin the Savage, Study).
D. Wildenstein and R. Cogniat, Paul Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p. 84, no. 4 (detail illustrated; titled Gauguin en Indien).
K. Mittelstädt, Paul Gauguin: Self-Portraits, Oxford, 1968, p. 61 (detail illustrated, pl. 19; titled Self-portrait, Gauguin the Savage, Study).
D. Wildenstein and R. Cogniat, Paul Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p. 84, no. 4 (detail illustrated; titled Gauguin en Indien).
Exhibited
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée départemental du Pieuré, <i>Le Chemin de Gauguin: </i><i>Genèse</i><i> et
rayonnement </i>1985, p. 217 (detail illustrated, p. 101; titled <i>Paul Gauguin en Indien, par lui-même, au Pouldu</i>).<br>Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, <i>Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-1890</i>, January-April 2001, pp. 31 and 157, fig. 42 (detail illustrated).
rayonnement </i>1985, p. 217 (detail illustrated, p. 101; titled <i>Paul Gauguin en Indien, par lui-même, au Pouldu</i>).<br>Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, <i>Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-1890</i>, January-April 2001, pp. 31 and 157, fig. 42 (detail illustrated).
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Paul Gauguin digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
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