Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 12 October 2015
South African and International Art, Day Sale
About this Item
signed in the plate
Notes
Editions of this print are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Art Institute Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; and de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco
Literature
The following is an excerpt from an article published in the New York Times, 13 March 2014, relating to the exhibition, The Man, Not the Myth, Gauguin Metamorphoses, at the Museum of Modern Art:
In 1889, he made the Volpini series of zincograph prints (named for the cafe in which they were exhibited), the first of three suites of prints that form the spine of the MoMA show. Printed on yellow paper with generous borders that are themselves unusual, they show him reprising paintings made in Brittany...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/arts/design/gauguin-metamorphoses-at-moma-goes-beyond-paintings.html