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Artworks
PAUL GAUGUIN
Head of a TahitianColoured chalks and pastel, heightened with touches of gold31 x 21.2 cm.
12 ¼ x 8 ½ inProvenance
Lambert collection;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Palais Galliera (Ader Picard Tajan), 7 June 1973, lot 5;
Private collection (Philippe Derazay?), Paris;
Anonymous sale, Piasa, Paris, 26 March 2003, lot 120;
Jean-Luc Baroni;
Private Collection, UK.
Exhibitions
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Giandadda, Paul Gauguin, 1998, no. 78;
London, Tate Modern, Gauguin. Maker of Myth, 2010, no. 104;
London, Royal Academy, Impressionists on Paper. Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, 2023-2024,
no. 60
Literature
Richard Brettell et al., The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of
Art, and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1988–1989, illustrated p. 270, no. 148;
Victor Merlhès, ‘Le “Cahier pour Aline”: Histoire et signification’, in Paul Gauguin, “A ma fille
Aline, ce cahier est dédié”, facsimile ed., Bordeaux, 1989, p. 36;
Ronald Pickvance, Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., Martigny, Fondation Gianadda, 1998, illustrated
p. 133, pp. 234–235, no. 78 and pp. 279–280, no. 78.
Elisabeth Vedrenne, ‘Gauguin, l’atelier des tropiques’, L’Œil, July–August 1998, ill. p. 73;
Isabelle de Wavrin, ‘Un marché de pénurie’, Beaux-Arts Magazine: Gauguin-Tahiti, 2003,
illustrated, p. 87;
Belinda Thomson et al, Gauguin. Maker of Myth, London, Tate, 2010, pp. 154-55 and
illustrated p. 168, no. 104
Impressionists on Paper. Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. Cat. London, Royal Academy of
Art, 2023, illustrated p. 125, no. 60.
