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Paul Gauguin

A Breton Gleaner, 1886

Not on View

Medium

pastel on laid paper, squared in blue pastel

Dimensions

overall: 46 x 37.8 cm (18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2006.128.21

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

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Provenance

Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 27.

2017: Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, The Art Institute of Chicago; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2017-2018 (shown only in Paris).

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

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