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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Lot 104
20.10.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1051709
Lot 104 | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 70 000
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé

eau-forte, pointe-sèche et burin, imprimé en bistre, sur papier vergé Arches

Plaque: 18.3 x 14.3 cm.

Feuille: 41.3 x 27.3 cm.

Exécutée en 1891, belle impression du deuxième état sur quatre, comme décrit par Kornfeld, avec encre en surface de la plaque partiellement essuyée, rare épreuve avant le tirage à 79 exemplaires (dont 60 ont été publiés dans l'édition de luxe de C. Morice, Gauguin, par H. Floury, Paris, 1919)



etching, drypoint and engraving, printed in bistre, on Arches laid paper

Plate: 7 ¼ x 5 5⁄8 in.

Sheet: 16 1⁄8 x 10 ¾ in.

Executed in 1891, a fine impression of Kornfeld's second state (of four), printed with selectively wiped tone, a rare proof before the edition of 79 (sixty of which were published in the de luxe edition of C. Morice, Gauguin, by H. Floury, Paris, 1919)





Provenance

Vente Paris, Maître André Couturier et Maître André Desvouges, expert Loys Delteil, 29 June 1916, lot 110 bis (très belle épreuve sous verre selon le descriptif du catalogue).

David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris; sa vente, Ader, Paris, 25-26 Mai 1971, lot 111 (FF 8,000).

Henri Marie Petiet (1894-1980), Paris (Lugt 5031) (probablement acquis au cours de cette vente); sa vente, Piasa, Paris, 30 September 1999, lot 60 (très belle en rare épreuve du 1er tirage sur vergé filigrané ARCHES limité à une douzaine d'épreuve tirées par Delâtre).

Sam Josefowitz, Pully (acquis au cours de cette vente).

Puis par descendance aux propriétaires actuels.





Literature

M. Guérin, L’œuvre gravé de Gauguin, San Francisco, 1980, vol. I, p. 10, no. 14 (une autre épreuve illustrée, p. 9).

B. Thomson, Gauguin, Londres, 1987, p. 126 (une autre épreuve illustrée, fig.110).

E.W. Kornfeld, E. Mongan, H. Joachim, Paul Gauguin, Catalogue raisonné of his Prints, Berne, 1988, p. 42, no. 12.II.A/B.a (une autre épreuve illustrée, p. 43).

R. Brettell, F. Cachin, C. Frèches-Thory, C. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington et Chicago, 1988, p. 199-202.

B. Salvesen, Gauguin, Chicago, 2000, p. 39 (une autre épreuve illustrée, p. 42, fig.18).

L. Goddard, Aesthetic Rivalries, Word and Image In France, 1880-1926, Berne, 2012, p. 17 et 18 (une autre épreuve illustrée, fig. 1).



Exhibited

Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, P. Gauguin, octobre 1928, no.181.77.



Further details

Cette image, l'une des deux seules eaux forts de l'artiste, représente de manière concise les principales figures et idées qui ont donné naissance à l'école symboliste. Gauguin et le poète Mallarmé, qui se sont rencontrés quelques mois seulement avant l'achèvement de cette planche, deviendront des amis de longue date et des géants du mouvement dans leurs activités créatrices respectives.
Après avoir été présenté par un ami commun, l'écrivain Charles Morice, à la fin de l'année 1890, Gauguin assiste chaque fois qu'il le peut au salon hebdomadaire de Mallarmé. Cette planche, achevée au début de l'année 1891 alors que Gauguin se préparait à quitter Paris pour son premier séjour à Tahiti, est née de la parenté créative entre ces personnages influents et a été distribuée par Gauguin à une poignée d'amis partageant les mêmes idées, dont Morice, Jean Dolent, George-Daniel de Monfried, Charles Filiger et, bien sûr, Mallarmé lui-même.
Le corbeau derrière la tête du sujet fait référence à la célèbre traduction par Mallarmé, en 1875, du poème éponyme d'Edgar Allan Poe, illustrée par cinq lithographies de Manet. Le rendu de Gauguin ressemble beaucoup à l'image de couverture de Manet (Tête de corbeau de profil, Harris 83a), reconnaissant ainsi le rôle important du poète français dans la diffusion de l'importante œuvre pré-symboliste de Poe auprès d'un public enthousiaste.
Créée au cœur de quelques mois critiques partagés entre ces deux grands esprits, cette estampe est une représentation rare et puissante du mouvement symboliste naissant.
Mongan, Kornfeld et Joakim ont enregistré dix épreuves du vivant de l'artiste de cet état sur divers papiers et treize épreuves posthumes sur vélin ou Japon avant l'édition numérotée.

After being introduced by a mutual friend, the writer Charles Morice, in late 1890, Gauguin attended Mallarmé's weekly salon whenever possible. This plate, which was completed in early 1891 as Gauguin made preparations to leave Paris for his first trip to Tahiti, was born of the creative kinship between these influential figures and was distributed by Gauguin to a handful of like-minded friends, including Morice, Jean Dolent, George- Daniel de Monfried, Charles Filiger, and, naturally, Mallarmé himself.
The raven behind the subject's head references Mallarmé's influential 1875 translation of the famous eponymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated with five lithographs by Manet. Gauguin's rendering closely resembles Manet's cover image (Head of a Raven in Profile, Harris 83a), thereby acknowledging the French poet's important role in disseminating Poe's important pre-symbolist work to an eager audience. Created at the crux of few critical months shared between these two great minds, this print is a rare and powerful representation of the nascent Symbolist movement. Mongan, Kornfeld and Joakim record ten lifetime proofs in this state on various papers and thirteen posthumous proofs on wove or Japan before the numbered edition.
Created at the crux of few critical months shared between these two great minds, this print is a rare and powerful representation of the nascent Symbolist movement.
Mongan, Kornfeld and Joakim record ten lifetime proofs in this state on various papers and thirteen posthumous proofs on wove or Japan before the numbered edition
Artist:Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Applied technique:Etching
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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