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Lot 192 Property from the Collection of Montgomery “Montie” H.W. Ritchie
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Portrait d'Aline Gauguin
Closed14 November 2017
Price Realised
USD 50,000
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Specialist note
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.).
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.).