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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 12, 2013 | Swann Auctions | New York | 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings | 146 | $****** - ****** | A superb, dark impression o... | Frise de Masques |
Works on Paper
32.5 x 11 cm (12.8 x 4.33 in)
Frottage on tissue-thin Japan paper
PAUL GAUGUIN
Frise de Masques .
Frottage on tissue-thin Japan paper, circa 1895. 325x110 mm; 12 3/4x4 3/8 inches, small to wide (full ?) margins. A superb, dark impression of this scarce print.
We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years.
Gauguin (1848-1903) had initially established himself as a Neoimpressionist artist in Paris but became more recognized for his exploration of color and form while living in Tahiti, producing works that would influence the Symbolist, Fauvist and Expressionist schools. He ventured to Tahiti in search of a virgin landscape reminiscent of Eden that would allow him to create true "primitive" art. This attempt to evoke a feeling of "primitive" is expressed in the current frottage, inspired by traditional Tahitian carvings.
A frottage is a rubbing made by placing paper over a carved or textured object and applying a drawing medium to the paper to produce an impression of the underlying object--for this work the object is a cylindrical wood carving made by Gauguin himself. Gauguin became particularly interested in woodcuts and frottage after his first trip to Tahiti in 1891. His best-known woodcuts from this period are part of his 1893 book Noa Noa (meaning fragrant) which described and contextualized the paintings he made while in Tahiti. This frottage was produced around when Gauguin traveled to Tahiti for the second time in 1895. Kornfeld A IV.
