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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Lot 535
18.05.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1209830
Lot 535 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Gauguin, P.
La danse du feu ou Le diable parle
signed 'Paul Gauguin' (lower left)
pencil on paper
6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (16.2 x 22.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1891-1893




Provenance

Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris (by 1942).
Shepherd Gallery, New York (circa 1983).
Private collection, New York.



Literature

J. Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, p. 28, no. 41 (illustrated, p. 29; titled Tahitians Watching a Group of Dancers).
J. Teilhet-Fisk, Paradise Reviewed: An Interpretation of Gauguin's Polynesian Symbolism, Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 65 (titled Tahitians Watching a Group of Dancers).
Z. Amishai-Maisels, Gauguin's Religious Themes, Ph.D. Diss., The Hebrew University, 1969, pp. 364, 394 and 537 (illustrated, fig. 157; dated circa 1891-1892 and titled Ritual Dance).
R. Brettell, F. Cachin, C. Frèches-Thory and C.F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 223.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Marcel Guiot, Gauguin: Aquarelles, monotypes, dessins, May-June 1942, p. 39, no. 86 (titled Fête Maorie).



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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