Live Auction 15930Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Lot 143

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

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Closed21 June 2018

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GBP 23,750

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Nu assis
pencil on paper
7 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (19.4 x 15.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1891-1893

Emil Français, Paris, by 1949.
Private collection, New York, by descent from the above; sale, Christie's, New York, 2 November 2005, lot 108.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work will be included in the forthcoming Paul Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

This drawing is a study for the painting L'idole (Rave te hiti ramu), 1898 (Wlidenstein, no. 570; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg). The same figure in reverse appears in the painting Et l'or de leurs corps, 1901 (Wildenstein, no. 596; Musée du Louvre, Paris) and also in a woodcut by the artist (Guérin, no. 35).