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PAUL GAUGUIN Étude de Chats; Deux Têtes d'hommes.
Pencil and charcoal on cream laid paper, double-sided. 110x160 mm; 4 3/8x6 1/4 inches, full margins. With the artist's initials ink stamp (Lugt 2078, lower right recto and lower right verso).
Ex-collection Maurice Exsteens, Paris; Georges Daniel de Monfreid, France; private collection, West Hartford. Sold "Paul Gauguin: Briefe--Graphik--Zeichnungen: Teile der Sammlung Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, Paris," Kornfeld, Berlin, June 18, 1970.
With correspondence from Sylvie Crussard and M.B. Baranger of the Fondation Wildenstein, Paris, dated February 25, 1974; June 26, 1980; and August 1, 1980, requesting photographs of the drawing for an upcoming catalogue raisonné of Gauguin's works.
