A Fisherman Drinking Beside His Canoe

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Prints and Drawings

1894

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: A Fisherman Drinking Beside His Canoe
Origin: France
Date: 1894
Medium: Wood-block print in black ink, with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and brown watercolor and touches of red and orange gouache, on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 206 × 140 mm (image/primary/secondary support)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1971.785

Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints (Bern, 1988), p. 148, no. 33.
Britt Salvesen, with Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 100 and 111, no. 28 (ill.).

Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, “La Vie Ardente de Paul Gauguin”, 1936, p. 91, cat. 156.

Henri M. Petiet (1894-1980), Paris [Kornfeld]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris [Kornfeld]. Sold by Hotel Drouot, Paris, probably to Robert M. Light (born 1929), Boston, May 25, 1971, lot 113. Sold by Robert M. Light to the Art Institute, October 1971.

Guérin 46 II

Mongan, Gauguin 30 I/II

Kornfeld 33 II/II

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