Portrait de femme (Juliette Huet)

Details

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Portrait de femme (Juliette Huet)
sanguine and charcoal on paper
13 x 11 in. (33 x 29.5 cm.); irregular
Executed circa 1890

Provenance

Juliette Huet, Paris.
Galerie Druet, Paris (no. 3100).
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 2000, lot 7.
Acquired at the above sale and thence by descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the new critical catalogue of Paul Gauguin's works being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute.

This work relates to a group of drawings Gauguin executed during his time in Paris in late 1890 and early 1891, after returning from Pont-Aven and before his departure to Tahiti. This drawing is one of two that probably depicts Juliette Huet, a seamstress and Gauguin's mistress.

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