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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Lot 26
28.02.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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ID 907985
Lot 26 | PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Estimate value
£ 1 600 000 – 2 500 000
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

La Montagne Sainte-Marguerite vue des environs du presbytère

signed and dated 'P Gauguin 86' (lower left)

oil on canvas

23 5/8 x 28 7/8 in. (60.2 x 73.5 cm.)

Painted in Pont-Aven in 1886





Provenance

(Probably) Galerie Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in November 1888.

(Probably) M. Dupuis, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 13 November 1888, until December 1890.

(Probably) Galerie E. Druet, Paris, no. 5110.

Hugo Perls, Berlin, 1926.

Graphisches Kabinett [Peter Voigt], Bremen, 1926.

E.H. Baron (née Pappier), Amsterdam, by whom acquired from the above in 1926.

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, by whom acquired from the above in 1959.

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in August 1960.



Literature

(Probably) R. Huyghe, Le Carnet de Paul Gauguin, c. 1888-1890, Paris, p. 225 ("[sold to] Dupuis Vue de Pont-Aven 350 [F]").

G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, vol. I, Paris, 1964, no. 195, p. 72 (illustrated; titled 'La Montagne Sainte-Marguerite à Pont-Aven').

(Probably) J. Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism, Paris, 1986, Appendix I, 'Excerpts from the Goupil-Boussod & Valadon Ledgers', listed as 'Vue de Pont-Aven [W.195?]'.

G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 44, p. 89 (illustrated).

(Probably) J. Rewald, Theo Van Gogh, Goupil and the Impressionists, Paris, 1973, pp. 33, 74-75.

D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), vol. I, Paris, 2001, no. 227, pp. 283-284 (illustrated p. 283).

M. van Dijk & J. van der Hoeven, Gauguin and Laval in Martinique, Amsterdam, 2019, pp. 80 & 82 (illustrated fig. 49, p. 83).



Exhibited

(Probably) Paris, Galerie Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paul Gauguin, November 1888.

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Kunstschatten uit Nederlandse Verzamelingen, June - September 1955, no. 186, p. 80 (illustrated pl. 198).

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent Oeuvres de Gauguin, 1960, no. 23 (illustrated).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, April - May 1960, no. 26, p. 7 (illustrated pl.19).

London, Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group, January - February 1966, no. 3a, p. 19 (titled 'View of Pont-Aven'); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, Gauguin und sein Kreis in der Bretagne, March - April 1966, no. 5, p. 50 (titled 'La Montagne Sainte-Marguerite à Pont-Aven').



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Artist:Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Applied technique:Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Impressionism, Modern art
Genre:Cityscape
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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