Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Lot 192Property from the Collection of Montgomery “Montie” H.W. Ritchie

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Portrait d'Aline Gauguin

Fermé14 November 2017

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Portrait d'Aline Gauguin
watercolor and charcoal on paper
7 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (18.6 x 16.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1879-1880

Paco Durrio, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1895).
Lucas Lichtenhahn, Basel.
Private collection, Basel.
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (by 1959).
Private collection, Basel (by 1970).
Acquired by the late owner, circa 1975.

Note du spécialiste

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.

According to Ronald Pickvance, "Many of Gauguin's early portraits were of his wife Mette and their five children. This small sketch shows his only daughter, Aline, born on Christmas Day 1877 and named after his mother. She was his favourite child; he wrote the Cahier pour Aline during his first stay in Tahiti and her death, in January 1897, as a result of pneumonia, deeply shocked him" (op. cit.).