Paul Gauguin

Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline

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Property from the Ambroise Vollard Collection

Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline

signed P. Gauguin and dated 85 (lower right)

oil on canvas

24 ¼ by 20 in. 61.5 by 51 cm.

Executed in 1885.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired by 1922)
Etienne Bignou and Martin Fabiani, Paris (acquired from the estate of the above in 1940)
Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (acquired from the above in February 1941)
Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés, Paris (recovered from the above in 1950)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (allocated by the above in 1950 as MNR 219)
Jeu de Paume, Paris (transferred from the above in 1950)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris (transferred from the above in 1986)
Restituted by the French authorities to the heirs of Ambroise Vollard on 10 February 2023

Maurice Malingue, Gauguin, Paris, 1948, pl. 96, illustrated (titled Vase et fleurs)

Lee Van Dovski, Paul Gauguin oder Die Flucht Vor Der Zivilisation, Bern,1950, no. 73, p. 341 (titled Vase et fleurs)

Germain Bazin, Hélène Adhémar and Maurice Sérullaz, Musée national du Louvre, Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes, Paris, 1958, no. 129, pp. 66-67 (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Charles Sterling and Hélène Adhémar, Musée du Louvre, Peintures, École française, XIXème siècle, vol. II, Paris, 1959, no. 898, pl. 314, illustrated

Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, no. 173, p. 65, illustrated (titled Mandoline et fleurs)

Merete Bodelsen, Gauguin og Impressionisterne, Copenhagen, 1968, p. 111, illustrated (titled Nature morte med mandolin)

Merete Bodelsen, “Gauguin, the Collector,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 112, no. 180, September 1870, fig. 32, p. 592, illustrated (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Gabriele Mandel Sugana, L'Opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 24, p. 88, illustrated (titled Mandolino e vaso di fiori)

Hélène Adhémar and Anne Dayez, Musée du Louvre, Musée de l'Impressionnisme, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1973, p. 145, p. 38, illustrated

Hélène Adhémar and Anne Dayez-Distel, Musée du Louvre, Jeu de Paume, Catalogue rédigé, Paris, 1977, p. 151 and p. 42, illustrated (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Gabriele-Mandel Sugana, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Gauguin, Paris, 1981, no. 24, illustrated

Yann Le Pinchon, Gauguin: Life, Art, Inspiration, New York, 1986, p. 37, illustrated in color (titled Still Life with Mandolin)

Isabelle Compin and Anne Roquebert, Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay, vol. III, Paris, 1986, p. 270, illustrated

Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey, eds., Gauguin: A Retrospective, New York, 1987, p. 23, illustrated in color (titled Still Life with Peonies and Mandolin)

Françoise Cachin, Gauguin, Paris, 1988, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Still-life with Vase of Japanese Peonies and Mandolin)

Isabelle Compin, Geneviève Lacambre and Anne Roquebert, Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée d'Orsay, vol. I, Paris, 1990, pp. 206-07, illustrated

Stephen F. Eisenman, Gauguin's Skirt, New York, 1997, p. 31, illustrated (titled Still Life with Vase of Japanese Peonies and Mandolin)

Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin. Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), vol. I, Paris, 2001, no. 169, p. 201, illustrated in color

Claude Lesné and Anne Roquebert, Catalogue des peintures MNR, Paris, 2004, p. 357, illustrated (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Gauguin and Impressionism, 2005-06, fig. 290, p. 239, illustrated in color

Stéphane Guégan, Gauguin, Paris, 2011, pp. 4-5 and 33, a detail illustrated

Musée de Brive, Musée La Rochelle, Musée Angoulème and Musée Rennes, Impressionnistes et précurseurs, 1955, no. 32, p. 61, illustrated (titled Fleurs et mandoline)

Limoges, Musée Municipal, De l'impressionnisme à nos jours, 1956, no. 10

Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Natures mortes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1956, no. 62 (titled Fleurs et Mandoline)

Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes de México and Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Cien anos de Pintura en Francia de 1850 à nuestros dias, 1962, no. 54, n.p., illustrated

Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, De Daumier à Rouault hommage à Roger Marx, 1859-1913, 1963, no. 45 (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Munich, Haus der Künst, Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts von David bis Cézanne, 1964-65, no. 111, pp. 260-61, illustrated (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Los Impressionistas franceses, 1971, no. 75, p. 137, illustrated

Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, La Nature morte de Brueghel à Soutine, 1978, no. 161, illustrated

Paris, Petit Palais, Peintres de fleurs en France du XVIIème au XIXème siècles, 1979, no. 63, illustrated (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Paris, Grand Palais, Art Institute of Chicago and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Gauguin, 1988-89, no. 16, p. 67 (Paris), illustrated in color (titled Nature morte à la mandoline); p. 41, illustrated in color (titled Still Life with Vase of Japanese Peonies and Mandolin)

Paris, Grand Palais, Gauguin as Alchemist, 2017-18, no. 17, illustrated in color (titled Still Life with Mandolin)

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Les Choses. Une Histoire de la Nature Morte, 2022-23, no. 110, p. 184, illustrated in color (titled Mandoline et pivoines de Chine)