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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 308 | $****** - ****** | Baignade (II) |
Works on Paper
11.4 x 40.6 cm (4.5 x 16 in)
pastel and watercolor over pencil on paper laid down on paper
signed and dated 'P. Gauguin 87' (lower right)
(possibly) Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paris.
Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, October 1907).
Julius Schmits, Elberfeld, Germany (acquired from the above, April 1908).
Mrs. Julius Schmits, Elberfeld (by descent from the above).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above, January 1954).
Robert Cummings, Montreal (acquired from the above, 1962); sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 2006, lot 116.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Kunstmuseum Basel, 1939-1953 (on extended loan).
Kunstmuseum Basel, Paul Gauguin, November 1949-January 1950, p. 56, no. 108 (titled Entwurf zu einem Fächer. Badende Mädchen auf La Martinique).
Denver Art Museum, Collectors' Choice, 1960, no. 48.
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Paul Gauguin: Artist of Myth and Dream, October 2007-February 2008, p. 212, no. 31 (illustrated in color, p. 213; dated 1888).
The Cleveland Museum of Art and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity, October 2009-June 2010, p. 127, no. 70 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
J. Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, p. 24, no. 12 (dated 1888 and titled Young Breton Bather).
M. Bodelsen, "Gauguin's Bathing Girl," Burlington Magazine, vol. 101, no. 674, May 1959, p. 187 (illustrated, p. 92, fig. 41; titled Drawing in the Shape of a Fan).
R. Cogniat and J. Rewald, Paul Gauguin: Carnet de croquis, New York, 1962, p. 29.
M. Bodelsen, Gauguin's Ceramics: A Study in the Development of His Art, London, 1964, pp. 87 and 96 (illustrated, p. 96, fig. 67).
G. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, p. 80, no. 216 (illustrated).
G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p. 89, no. 55.
M. Gerstein, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fans, Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978, pp. 303-306, no. 11.
M. Gerstein, "Paul Gauguin's Arearea," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, vol. VIII, no. 4, 1981, p. 6 (illustrated, p. 10, fig. 8; titled Baignade, Bretagne (Bathing, Brittany)).
R. Brettel, F. Cachin, C. Frèches-Thory and C.F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 83.
J.-P. Zingg, Les éventails de Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1996, p. 87 (illustrated, p. 37, pl. X).
signed and dated 'P. Gauguin 87' (lower right)
pastel and watercolor over pencil on paper laid down on paper
4 ½ x 16 in. (11.5 x 40.5 cm.) (irregular)
Executed in 1887
