PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Lot 19
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Lot 19 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Idole Tahitienne

woodcut printed in black, over monotype printed in terracotta and ochre

circa 1894-95

on thin cream wove paper

a strong and vibrant impression of this rare and important print

one of only nine recorded impressions, printed by the artist in Pont-Aven or Paris

Sheet 149 x 118 mm.





Provenance

Hill-Stone, New York.

Acquired from the above on 1 January 1987, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

M. Guérin, L'œuvre gravé de Gauguin, Paris, 1927, no. 44, p. 16 (another impression illustrated).

E. Mongan, E.W. Kornfeld & H. Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, Bern, 1988, no. 32, pp. 146 & 147 (this impression cited; another impression illustrated).



ADDITIONAL SELECTED LITERATURE:

C. Becker, ed., Paul Gauguin Tahiti, exh. cat., Stuttgart, 1998, no. 83, p. 133 (another impression illustrated).

J. Hargrove, Gauguin, Paris, 2017, no. 294, p. 251 (another impression illustrated).

G. Groom, ed., Gauguin, Artist as Alchemist, exh. cat., Chicago, 2017, no. 185, p. 245 (another impression illustrated).

S. Figura, Gauguin: Metamorphoses, exh. cat., New York, 2014, nos. 96 & 97, pp. 144 & 145 (two other impressions illustrated; a detail illustrated p. 8).



Exhibited

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Gauguin and Polynesia: South Pacific Encounters, September - December 2011, no. 221, p. 230 (illustrated).
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