Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [verso], 1899/1900

Not on View

Medium

graphite and blue colored pencil on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 62.8 x 51.5 cm (24 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Field 1973, no. 64

Accession Number

1995.47.41.b

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right verso in graphite: P. Gauguin; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Gauguin

Provenance

1 of 10 drawings sent by Gauguin to (Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris) in 1900; Gustave Fayet [1865-1925], Paris; Mme. Huguette Berès; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 March 1966, no. 36); (P & D Colnaghi, London); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Beres, Huguette, Ms.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Fayet, Gustave
Mellon, Paul
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1903: Exposition Paul Gauguin. Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1903, no.10 or 14 (as Tahitiennes).

1906: Salon d'Automne, 4me exposition: Oeuvres de Gauguin. Grand Palais, Paris, 1906, no. 43 (as Deux Tahitiennes).

1973: Gauguin: Monotypes. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1973, no. 64.

1988: The Art of Paul Gauguin. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and tour (Washington and Chicago only), 1988-1989, no. 247 (recto and verso repr.).

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2003: "Gauguin-Tahiti, L'atelier des tropiques", Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,2003-2004, no. 174 (Eng. cat. no. P.218)(exh. in Boston only).

2014: Gauguin: Metamorphoses, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973: Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin Monotypes. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.