PAUL GAUGUIN Nave Nave Fenua

Sale 2500 - Lot 256

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

PAUL GAUGUIN
Nave Nave Fenua.

Woodcut printed in ochre ink on thin cream laid paper, 1893-94. 355x203 mm; 14x8 1/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Artist's proof, aside from the editions of approximately 30 printed in colors and 100 printed in black.

According to Kornfeld, the edition of approximately 30 printed in colors by Louis Roy in 1894 are on heavy cream Japan paper and the edition of 100 printed in black ink by the artist's son Pola Gauguin in 1921 are on grayish white China paper. The current lot appears to be an impression cited in the catalogue raisonné as state IV A "printed by Paul Gauguin in one color on cream or white paper." Kornfeld 14.

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