Paul Gauguin

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paris (gift from the artist)
Amédée Schuffenecker, Paris (brother of the above, until 1926)
Mak, Amsterdam, December 21-22, 1926, lot 312
Jean-Baptiste de la Faille (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie St. Etienne (Otto Kallir), New York (circa 1946)
Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1980, lot 109
Seymour Stein (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, December 11, 2003, lot 113
Collection Jacques Grange, Paris

Paris, Nunès et Fiquet, Exposition Paul Gauguin, March 7-31, 1917, no. 26
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc, Paul Gauguin, April 3-May 4, 1946, no. 57, illustrated in the catalogue p. 78
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc, Gauguin, April 5-May 5, 1956, no. 99

Charles Morice, 'Gauguin the sculptor', in Zolotoe Runo, 1909, no. 1, p. 5-14 and no. 10, p. 47-52
Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, no. 48, illustrated p. 162
Yann Le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin, Paris, 1986, illustrated p. 64

Bamboo on a wooden base. There is an old and stable fissure due to the nature of the Bamboo medium running vertically (approx. 0.5 cm large) across the bamboo, as visible on the printed catalogue illustration. There are a few additional stable vertical hairline fissures, due to the nature of the Bamboo medium, at the base (the longest of which is approx. 4.5 cm long). There are some small scuffs and minor losses along the base, possibly original, and a few minor scratches in places, notably below the hole. There is superficial some dust to the crevices. There are some scattered dots of slight discoloration, possibly original. This work is in good and stable condition.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Paul Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.