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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Te Faruru (Here we make Love), from: NOA NOA

Closed21 March 2019

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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Te Faruru (Here we make Love), from: NOA NOA
woodcut printed in black and cinnamon with pochoir in brick red, 1893-94, on simili-Japan paper, a soft and atmospheric impression of the fifth state (of six), from the edition of approximately 25-30 impressions printed by Louis Roy, Paris, 1894, with small margins, some unobtrusive horizontal creasing, time-staining, otherwise in good condition
Block 356 x 203 mm., Sheet 396 x 247 mm.

Julien Leclercq (1865-1901), Paris; presumably acquired directly from the artist.
Fanny Flodin (1868-1954), Helsinki; by bequest from the above; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Of the 25-30 impressions of this edition recorded by Mongan, Kornfeld & Joachim, seven are in public collections.
Gauguin took this woodblock with him when he returned to Tahiti in 1895 where it was subsequently broken up. Only two fragments survive, in the collection of the National Gallery of Prague. As a result the subject was not included in Pola Gauguin's posthumous reprinting of the NOA NOA series.