Joies de Bretagne (Joys of Brittany), from the Volpini Suite by Paul Gauguin
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Joies de Bretagne (Joys of Brittany), from the Volpini Suite

Paul Gauguin · 1889

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Hellmuth Wallach (1901–1989), New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 80, cat. 129.
  • Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," January 23-March 22, 1981, pp. 194-201, cat. 58b (ill.), cat. by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov; traveled to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Vogh, Amsterdam, April 9-June 14, 1981.
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "The Art of Paul Gauguin," 1988, p. 138, cat. 72 (ill.); only shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, September 17-December 11, 1988.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist", June 25 - September 10, 2017, pp. 15, 126, 127, 142, cat. 47, cat. by Gloria Groom, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 80, cat. 129.
  • Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981), p. 196, cat. 58b (ill.).
  • Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey, The Art of Paul Gauguin, with assistance from Peter Zegers, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books, 1988), pp. 131, 138, cat. 72 (ill.).
  • Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, with assistance of Christine E. Stauffer (Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 28, cat. 7.
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing (L. King, 1991), p. 224, fig. 71a.
  • Bernard Denvir, Paul Gauguin: The Search for Paradise; Letters from Brittany and the South Seas (Collins & Brown, 1992), p. 42 (ill.).

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