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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Rouen, L'église Saint-Ouen
signed and dated 'PGauguin. 84' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28 5/8 in. (91.6 x 72.7 cm.)
Painted in 1884
Provenance
(probably) Boussod & Valadon et Cie., Paris (consigned by the artist).
(probably) George-Daniel de Monfreid Paris (acquired from the above, March 1893).
(possibly) Anon. sale, Kunst & Spiegel AG., Zurich, 26-28 October 1932, lot 689.
French Art Galleries, New York (by 1944 and until at least 1948).
Hugo Moser, New York.
Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas (by May 1957).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Paris, London and New York (by April 1963).
Seibu Department Store, Shizuoka (acquired from the above, September 1971).
Private collection, Japan (acquired from the above, circa 1975); sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2013, lot 265.
Private collection, Monaco (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Japan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2019.
Literature
J. Rewald, ed., Camille Pissarro Letters to His Son Lucien, New York, 1944, pp. 48-49, no. 8 (illustrated).
J. Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1946, p. 376 (illustrated).
J. Loize, De Maillol et Codet à Ségalen: Les amitiés du peintre Georges-Daniel de Monfreid et ses reliques de Gauguin, Paris, 1951, pp. 93-94, no. 138.
G. Diehl, El arte moderno francés en Caracas, Caracas, 1959, p. 19, no. 18 (illustrated).
S. Bottari and L. Laurenzi, "Arte antica e moderna," Notiziario, April-June 1963, no. 22, p. XVI (illustrated, fig. 40).
A. Bury, "In the Galleries, Lautrec and Gauguin," The Connoisseur, vol. 154, no. 622, December 1963, p. 258.
G. Wildenstein, L'art français: Gauguin, Paris, 1964, vol. I, pp. 41-42, no. 103 (illustrated, p. 41).
R. Cogniat and D. Wildenstein, Paul Gauguin Milan, 1971, p. 24 (illustrated in color, fig. 1).
J. Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1973, p. 494 (illustrated).
L. Van Dowski, Die Wahrheit über Gauguin, Darmstadt, 1973, p. 252, no. 44a.
Y. le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin, Paris, 1986, p. 34 (illustrated).
D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage: Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Paris, 2001, vol. I, p. 144, no. 124 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Exposition de peinture française, March-April 1940, no. 14 (titled Paysage en Bretagne; illustrated).
Milwaukee Art Institute, Masters of Impressionism, October-November 1948, no. 13 (titled Landscape near Rouen).
Caracas, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Cien años de pintura moderna, 1840-1940, May 1957, p. 13, no. 19 (illustrated).
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, 20 obras de la collección Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, January-December 1959, p. 9, no. 7 (titled Paisaje de Normandía, cerca de Rouen).
London, Wildenstein & Co., The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April-May 1963, pp. 23-24, no. 64 (illustrated).
Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Ideas for the Collector, February-March 1968.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists, October-December 1968, pp. 86-87, no. 65 (illustrated, p. 86).
Cincinnati Art Museum, The Early Work of Paul Gauguin Genesis of an Artist, March-April 1971, pp. 7 and 32, no. 6 (illustrated, p. 17).
Tokyo, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Wildenstein Collection, September-December 1971 (illustrated in color).
Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, Renoir: Un quadro per un movimiento, November-December 1982, no. 1.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The New Painting: Impressionism, January-July 1986, p. 444, no. 50.
Post Lot Text
This work will be included in the forthcoming Paul Gauguin digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.