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PAUL GAUGUIN L'Enlevèment d'Europe.
Woodcut on thin Japan paper, mounted on light tan card-stock so the signature does not appear in reverse, as issued, 1898-99. 235x220 mm; 9 1/4x8 5/8 inches, full margins. From the first edition of approximately 30 impressions (before the posthumous edition published by the artist's son, Pola Gauguin, and Leicester Galleries, London). Numbered "28" in ink, lower left recto). A superb impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.
According to Kornfeld, in this first edition there were, "About 30 impressions printed in olive-green, black or bistre on very thin Japan paper and sometimes pasted on another sheet so that the signature does not appear in reverse, mostly numbered in ink or pencil by hand." Kornfeld 47 A.
