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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWARD AND KIYI PFLUEGER
After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Torse de femme
Details
After Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Torse de femme
numbered '9/10' (on the underside of the left leg); stamped with foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the underside of the right leg)
bronze with black patina
Height: 11½ in. (29.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894; this bronze version cast in the 1950s
Torse de femme
numbered '9/10' (on the underside of the left leg); stamped with foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the underside of the right leg)
bronze with black patina
Height: 11½ in. (29.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894; this bronze version cast in the 1950s
Provenance
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York.
Literature
M. Malingue, ed., Lettres de Gauguin à sa femme et à ses amis, Paris, 1946, pls. 24-25 (clay version illustrated).
R.J. Goldwater, Paul Gauguin, New York, 1957, p. 37 (terracotta version illustrated; titled Torso of a Tahitian Woman and dated 1893).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 252, no. 116 (clay version illustrated).
R.J. Goldwater, Paul Gauguin, New York, 1957, p. 37 (terracotta version illustrated; titled Torso of a Tahitian Woman and dated 1893).
C. Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, p. 252, no. 116 (clay version illustrated).