ID 792558
Lot 427 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Vue de Rouen
bears the signature and date ‘P. Gauguin 82’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 1⁄4 x 39 1⁄8 in. (73.8 x 99.2 cm.)
Painted in 1884
Provenance
(Probably) Jos Hessel, Paris.
Kleis Kunsthandel, Copenhagen.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1893.
(Possibly) Blomqvist, Oslo, 1945.
Acquired in 1946, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Rewald, 'Gauguin et le Danemark', in Gazette des Beaux-arts, January - April 1956, no. 46, numéro spécial Gauguin, p. 80 (titled 'De Bretagne').
D. Sutton, 'Notes on Paul Gauguin apropos a recent exhibition', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 98, no. 636, March 1956, p. 87 & 91 (titled 'From Brittany').
Exhibited
Copenhagen, Georg Kleis, Martsudstillingen, March - May 1893, no. 139, p. 15 (titled 'Fra Bretagne').
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.
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