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image of Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven
Paul Gauguin (artist)
French, 1848 - 1903
Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888
oil on canvas
Overall: 73 x 92.7 cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/2 in.) framed: 86.7 x 106 x 3.5 cm (34 1/8 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
1983.1.19
Not on View
From the Tour: Paul Gauguin
Object 1 of 8

1925Rotonchamp, Jean. Paul Gauguin 1848-1903. Paris, 1925:64-66
1936Cogniat, Raymond. La Vie Ardente de Paul Gauguin. Paris, 1936:38-39
1944Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. London, 1944:98.
1948Malingue, Maurice. Gauguin: Le peintre et son oeuvre. Paris, 1948, repro.
1956Rewald, John. Post-Impressionism from van Gogh to Gauguin. New York, 1956, p. 289, repro.
1964Wildenstein 1964, no. 251.
1973Rewald, John. "Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists."Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1248 (January 1973):32-33.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 522, no. 783, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 171, repro.
1988NGA Gauguin 1988, 44.
1989Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Going Native," Art in America 77, no. 7 (July 1989):repro. 121.
1990Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Exh. cat. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990: no. 67, repro.
1991Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1991: no. 24, repro.
1991Buisson, Sylvie. Danse et Danseurs en peinture. Paris, 1991:45, repro.
1992Denvir, Bernard, ed. Paul Gauguin: The Search for Paradise: Letters from Britanny and the South Seas. New York, c. 1992:22, 43, repro.
1993Christensen, Carol. "The Paintings Materials and Technique of Paul Gauguin." Studies in the History of Art 41 (1993): 86, repro. no. 17.
1993Thomson, Belinda, ed. Gauguin by Himself. New York, 1993:no. 87, repro.
1995House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1985:106.
1997BĂśCHERWURM, Mein Lesebuch 3, Berlim, 1997, p. 125, repro.
1999Stolwojk, Christ and Richard Thomson. Theo van Gogh: Art dealer, collector and brother of Vincent. Zwolle, 1999:139, repro.
2000Silverman, Debora. Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art. New York, 1000:96, repro.
2001Wildenstein, Daniel. Gauguin: Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888). 2 vols. Paris, 2001:II:no. 296, repro.

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