Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

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).