Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Lot 281

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Portrait de Clovis

Fermé28 February 2019

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GBP 23,750

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Portrait de Clovis
black crayon on paper
9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (23.5 x 15.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1879

Anonymous sale, Jean-Marc Delvaux, Paris, 17 December 2017, lot 129.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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.
This delicately drawn portrait depicts Gauguin’s son Clovis (b. 1879) as an infant. Gauguin had spent the whole summer of 1879 in Pontoise with Pissarro, establishing an artistic alliance which influenced his beginnings as a painter. The portraits Gauguin made of his family during this transitional period - in both life and artistry - are packed with a deeply personal significance, and represent the most intimate and involved period of Gauguin's life as a father.