Oviri

Price realised USD 18,750

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After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Oviri

Price realised USD 18,750

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After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Oviri
signed with initials 'PGo' (on the right side of the base); titled 'OVIRI' (on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '3/12 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894-1895; this bronze version cast at a later date

Private collection, Belgium; sale, Christie's, London, 8 December 1997, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

H. Castets, "Gauguin," Revue universelle, vol. III, no. 96, 15 October 1903, p. 536.
"Sculpture de P. Gauguin," Zolotoe Runo, vol. I, 1909, pp. 6-7 (stoneware version illustrated).
C. Morice, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, pp. 158 and 159 (illustrated).
J. de Rotonchamp, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1925, pp. 194 and 197.
C. Kunstler, Gauguin: Peintre maudit, Paris, 1934, p. 57 (stoneware version illustrated).
M. Malingue, Gauguin, Paris, 1943, p. 151 (stoneware version illustrated).
A. Vollard, Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux, Paris, 1948, p. 184.
V. Segalen, Lettres de Gauguin à Daniel de Monfreid, Paris, 1950, p. 234.
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, pp. 245-247, no. 113 (stoneware version illustrated, pp. 245-247; stoneware version illustrated again in color, p. 100, pl. XVI).
G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p. 110, no. 394.1 (wood version illustrated).

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Paul Gauguin: Artist of Myth and Dream, October 2007-February 2008, p. 322, no. 94 (illustrated in color, p. 323).

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