Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 12 October 2015

South African and International Art, Day Sale
  • Paul Gauguin; Les Vieilles Filles a Arles, from the Volpini Suite


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000

About this Item

French 1848-1903
Les Vieilles Filles a Arles, from the Volpini Suite
executed in 1889

signed in the plate

lithograph
sheet size: 32 by 47cm

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

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