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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Lot 72 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NORDIC COLLECTION

PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

Te atua (The Gods), from: NOA NOA

Closed21 March 2019

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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Te atua (The Gods), from: NOA NOA
woodcut printed in black and ochre, 1893-94, on simili-Japan paper, a fine and rare trial proof impression of the third, final state, printed by the artist and Louis Roy, Paris, 1894, before the edition of approximately 25 with the halos and floral offering stopped out, with small margins, occasional soft vertical creasing, otherwise in good condition
Block 204 x 355 mm., Sheet 249 x 400 mm.

Julien Leclercq (1865-1901), Paris; presumably acquired directly from the artist.
Fanny Flodin (1868-1954), Helsinki; by bequest from the above; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Of the five trial proofs recorded by Mongan, Kornfeld & Joachim, two are in public collections. The present impression was not included in this census.
The artist broke up the woodblock shortly after the edition was printed, taking parts of it with him on his return to Tahiti in 1895. As a result, the subject was excluded from Pola Gauguin's posthumous reprinting of the NOA NOA series.