Live Auction 15005Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper Sale
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Lot 196 PROPERTY FROM A SOUTHWEST COLLECTION

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Parau Parau

Closed14 November 2017

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USD 37,500

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Parau Parau
signed, titled and inscribed 'Gauguin Parau Parau no' (upper center)
brush and black and brown inks on toned paper
10 5/8 x 7 ½ in. (27 x 19 cm.)
Painted in 1891-1893

Paco Durrio, Paris.
Walter Geiser, Basel.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above, 1938).
Dr. Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel (acquired from the above, 1942).
Wolfgang Donndorf, Stuttgart.
Anon. sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 20-21 May 1960, lot 133.
Anon. sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 22 June 1990, lot 463.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 12 November 1997, lot 220.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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.

The figures and their placement in Parau Parau are closely related to the painting Parau Hanohano, Paroles terrifiantes, executed in Tahiti in 1892 (Wildenstein, no. 460). The painting further develops the theme of the related oil Contes barbares (Wildenstein, no. 459) by introducing the figures of two idols into the background, the larger of which is faintly visible in the present study.