ID 792489 
Lot 428  | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 90 000 
Sabots
signed 'PGo' (on the right shoe)
carved wood
length: 11 1⁄4 in. (28.5 cm.)
Carved circa 1890
Provenance
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paris, and thence by descent.
Private collection, Paris.
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1977; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 2011, lot 159.
Private collection, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014.
Literature
Album Schuffenecker, Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris (illustrated).
M. Puy, "Paul Gauguin," in L'Art Décoratif, April 1911, p. 188 (illustrated).
C. Morice, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, p. 18 (illustrated).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, no. 82, p. 201 (illustrated).
Exhibited
(Probably) Paris, Galerie Nunès et Fiquet, Paul Gauguin, March 1917, no. 32 (titled 'Paire de sabots de Bretagne').
(Probably) Paris, Galerie L. Dru, Exposition rétrospective de P. Gauguin, Peintures, bois, céramiques, gravures, dessins, April - May 1923, no. 62.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin, Artist as Alchemist, June - September 2017, no. 45, p. 125 (illustrated; dated '1889-1890'); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 2017 - January 2018.
Post lot text
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.
| Artist: | Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) | 
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| Medium: | Wood | 
| Art style: | Impressionism, Folk Art | 
| Place of origin: | France | 
| Artist: | Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) | 
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| Medium: | Wood | 
| Art style: | Impressionism, Folk Art | 
| Place of origin: | France | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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