Portrait d'Aline Gauguin

Details

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Portrait d'Aline Gauguin
watercolor and charcoal on paper
7 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (18.6 x 16.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1879-1880

Provenance

Paco Durrio, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1895).
Lucas Lichtenhahn, Basel.
Private collection, Basel.
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (by 1959).
Private collection, Basel (by 1970).
Acquired by the late owner, circa 1975.

Literature

J. Leymarie, Paul Gauguin, Aquarelles, pastels et dessins, Basel, 1960, p. 10 (illustrated p. 11).
G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, p. 21, no. 42 (illustrated).
N. Awazu, Gauguin, Tokyo, 1970, p. 89 (illustrated, pl. 1).
R. Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin, London, 1970, p. 20 (illustrated, pl. 4).

Exhibited

Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, July-August 1928, no. 119.
Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, Gauguin, 1928, no. 90.
Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (on extended loan).
Amarillo Museum of Art, Achievement in Art, The Collection of Montgomery H.W. Ritchie, January-March 2017, no. 37.

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Lot Essay

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.

According to Ronald Pickvance, "Many of Gauguin's early portraits were of his wife Mette and their five children. This small sketch shows his only daughter, Aline, born on Christmas Day 1877 and named after his mother. She was his favourite child; he wrote the Cahier pour Aline during his first stay in Tahiti and her death, in January 1897, as a result of pneumonia, deeply shocked him" (op. cit.).

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