Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso)

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Prints and Drawings

1887

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1887
Medium: Black fabricated chalk with watercolor, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to light gray (recto); black fabricated chalk, with pen and brown ink, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to bluish-gray (verso) (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions: 26.9 × 20.4 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1991.223
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Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 25, cat. 147.
Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, exh. cat., 2nd ed. (Kunsthalle Basel, 1928), p. 30, cat. 132.
Galerien Thannhauser, Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903, introduction by W. Barth, exh. cat. (Galerien Thannhauser, [1928]), p. 12, cat. 103.
Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Auckland City Art Gallery, 1995), pp. 34, 49, cat. 3 (ill.).
Martha Tedeschi, “Recto, Portrait of Charles Laval and Other Sketches, 1887; Verso, Figure Studies from Martinique, 1887,” in “Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection since 1975,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 1 (2000), pp. 84–85 (ill.).
Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, and María Amezaga, Francisco Durrio (1868–1940): Sobre las huellas de Gauguin, exh. cat. (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013), p. 214, no. 2 (ill.).

Kunsthalle Basel, “Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903,” July–Sept. 9, 1928, p. 25, cat. 147 (1st ed.) and p. 30, cat. 132 (2nd ed.).
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, “Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903,” Oct. 1928, p. 12, cat. 103.
Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, “Paul Gauguin: Pages From the Pacific,” August 4-October 15, 1995, pp. 34 and 49, cat. 3 (ill.), cat. by Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, “Gauguin and Laval in Martinique”, October 2, 2018 - Janauary 13, 2019, pp. 78-79 (ill), cat. 46, cat. by by Maite van Dijk and Joose van der Hoeven, et. al.

From the artist to Francisco “Paco” Durrio (1868–1940), Paris, between 1893 and 1895 [Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2013]; left by Francisco “Paco” Durrio at Kunsthalle Basel for exhibition in 1928 [Basel, 1928]; Walther Geiser (1897–1993), Basel, by Jan. 1931 [Geiser personal papers]; consigned by Walther Geiser to Lucas Lichtenhan (1897–1969), Basel, on Jan. 18, 1931 [Gesier personal papers]; returned by Lucas Lichtenhan to Walther Geiser in 1936 [Geiser personal papers]; sold at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

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