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PAUL GAUGUIN La Femme aux Figues.
Etching on cream laid paper, 1894-95. 268x420; 10 1/2x16 1/2 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2), after the reduction of the plate at right. A very good, dark impression.
According to Boyle-Turner, "This controverisal print has been assigned to Seguin, to Gauguin, and even to a collaboration of both artists." The artist Armand Seguin (1869-1903) was a close friend of Gauguin during the late 1880s/early 1890s. Based on the etched inscrption upper right, "Chez Seguin à St. Julien," the scene takes place at Seguin's Breton home in Pouldu. Current scholarship regarding authorship for the print leans toward Gauguin, in its similarities to other of his Breton female portrait compositions. Kornfeld 25.
