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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

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Lot 193 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Fleurs et livres

signed, dated and dedicated 'p Gauguin 82 a mon ami Bertaux' (upper left)

oil on panel

4 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (12.4 x 18.4 cm.)

Painted in 1882





Provenance

Émile-Arnaud Bertaux, Paris (probably a gift from the artist, 1882).

Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago; sale, American Art Association, New York, 14 November 1934, lot 9.

Coroni Mundi, New York.

Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York (by 1936); sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 1 July 1959, lot 22.

The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired at the above sale).

Galerie Bernini, Vaduz.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, July 1964).

Donald and Jean Stralem, New York (acquired from the above, November 1964); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 1995, lot 5.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.



Literature

G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, vol. I, p. 32, no. 77 (illustrated; titled Bouquet de fleurs).

V. Merlhès, Correspondance de Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1984, p. 370, note 82; p. 389, note 123 and p. 394, note 134.

D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, A Savage in the Making: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Paris, 2002, vol. I, pp. 107-108, no. 96 (illustrated in color, p. 107).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Dru, Exposition rétrospective de P. Gauguin: Peintures, bois, céramiques, gravures et dessins, April-May 1923, no. 2 (titled Nature morte, fleurs).

Wallingford, Andrew Mellon Library, Works from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., January-February 1936.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection, 1937, p. 14, no. 65 (titled Flowers).

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., January-May 1941, p. 46, no. 54 (titled Flowers).

London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), XIXth and XXth Century French Paintings, October-November 1959, pp. 5-6, no. 6 (illustrated; titled Bouquet de fleurs).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990 (on loan).
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