Arlésiennes (Mistral) by Paul Gauguin
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Arlésiennes (Mistral)

Paul Gauguin · 1888

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Théo van Gogh for 300 Francs probably in the first half of 1889 [according to "carnet de l'artiste," 1888-1889, see Huyghe 1952, p. 223]; Émile Schuffenecker [according to Jeanne Schuffenecker, see Wildenstein 2001]; Thannhauser Galerie, Lucerne, c. 1923, stock no. 1167 [according to Wildenstein 2001]. James W. Barney, New York, c. 1929 [according to New York 1929 exh. cat.]. De Hauke and Co., New York, 1930 [according to Providence, R. I. 1930 exh. cat.]. Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York by 1931 [according to St. Louis 1931 exh. cat.; De Hauke and Seligmann may have owned the picture together since they were partners until about 1931]; sold to the Art Institute, October 26, 1934, using funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Fund.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Berlin, Hugo Perls, De Delacroix à Gauguin, 1925, cat. 14.
  • Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, July-August 1928, cat. 39 or 44.
  • Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, October 1928, cat. 30.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, November 1929, cat. 40.
  • Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, March 11-31, 1930, cat. 14.
  • St. Louis, The City Art Museum, An Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by the Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 4-26, 1931, cat. 15.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 302.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 4-April 12, 1936., cat. 79.
  • The San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936, cat. 61.
  • The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco supplement to the catalogue of Les Fauves, March 13-April 12, 1953, no cat. no. (shown in San Francisco only).
  • Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chef-d'oeuvres des collections américaines, March-August 1955, cat. 28, pl. 74.
  • Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12-March 29, 1959; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21-May 31, 1959, cat. 13.

Literature

Published references

  • Daniel Catton Rich, "Gauguin in Arles," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 29 (1935), pp. 34-37, ill. on the cover.
  • René Huyghe, Le Carnet de Paul Gauguin, 2 vols. (Paris, 1952), pp. 100, 101.
  • Mark Roskill, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionist Circle (New York, 1970), pp. 128 (ill), 145-6.
  • John Rewald. Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin (New York, 1956), pp. 254, 256.
  • Yvonne Thirion, "L'Influence de L'Estampe Japonaise dans l'oeuvre de Gauguin," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, per. 6, vol. 47(January-April 1956), p. 107.
  • John Rewald, "Theo van Gogh, Goupil and the Impressionists," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 81 (1973), pp. 35-36.
  • Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin (Paris, 1964), no. 300.
  • Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 28 (ill. detail), 29-30, 31(ill).
  • Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin (Paris, 2001), no. 329.
  • The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 59, pp. 126–27 (ill.).
  • Agnieszka Juszczak, "The Iconography of the Valpini Suite", Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, Exh. cat (Cleveland Musum of Art, 2010), p. 153, p.159, p.161, cat. 91.
  • Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Friction of Ideas: Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bernard, exh. cat. (harlottenlund: Ordrupgaard; Copenhagen: Strandberg Publishing, 2014), 134–34, 200 cat. 119.

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