"Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) After La Petite Parisienne"
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) after, La petite Parisienne, bronze sculpture with brown patina, H.27 cm, signed on the terrace "P. Gauguin".Posthumous edition cast after the carved wood created in 1880. Edition probably ordered by Ambroise Vollard.
The wood is kept at The Kelton Foundation in Santa Monica
Bibliography: Christopher Gray “Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin”, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1963, n°4 for the original wooden sculpture Pierre Kjellberg, Dictionary of 19th century bronzes century, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1987, similar model reproduced p.349 and 350.
An identical model sold at Sotheby's New York on November 6, 2015 n°351.
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