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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Lot 56
17.11.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
$ 6 000 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 842730
Lot 56 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l'Aven

signed and dated 'P Gauguin 88' (lower right)

oil on canvas

29 1/8 x 23 7/8 in. (74.2 x 61 cm.)

Painted in 1888





Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris (by 1908).

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 June 1909, lot 20.

Mme T. Courdille-Gernetz, Switzerland.

Private collection, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1986, lot 57.

Mme Gemey (acquired at the above sale).

Private collection, Japan.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 2000, lot 14.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. Malingue, Gauguin, Le peintre et son oeuvre, Paris, 1948, no. 115 (illustrated; titled Le Pêcheur à la ligne and dated 1887).

L. Van Dovski, Paul Gauguin, oder die Flucht von der Zivilisation, Zurich, 1950, p. 342, no. 111 (titled Le pêcheur à la ligne).

Y. Thirion, "L’influence de l’estampe japonaise dans l’oeuvre de Gauguin" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January-April 1956, p. 104 (illustrated, p. 104, fig. 8; titled La barque).

R. Cogniat and J. Rewald, Paul Gauguin, A Sketchbook, New York, 1961, p. 24, no. 264.

G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, vol. I, p. 98, no. 264 (illustrated).

G.M. Sugana, Tout l’œuvre peint de Gauguin, Paris, 1981, pp. 92-93, no. 96 (illustrated, p. 92).

D. Wildenstein, Gauguin: A Savage in the Making, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Milan, 2002, vol. II, pp. 432-433, no. 300 (illustrated in color, p. 432).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Schmit, 25e exposition, Maîtres français, XIXe-XXe siècles, May-July 1987, no. 25 (illustrated in color).



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Artist:Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Post-Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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