Paul Gauguin
The Embroiderer (Mette Gauguin)
1880
La Brodeuse (Mette Gauguin)
Oil on canvas
116 x 81 cm
Inscribed by the artist's son, Pola Gauguin, lower right
Wildenstein 65
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
Provenance
1Peter Krag Paris Consul General of Norway (?), Wildenstein (2001) no. 65.
2Halfdan Nobel Roede Riis/Christiania (Oslo) • by 1914 until ca. 1926 Fransk Kunst, (exh. cat.) Statens Kunstmuseum, Christiania (Oslo) 1914, no. 27; Paul Gauguin, Hans arbeider i skandinavisk eje (Ses œuvres dans les collections scandinaves), (exh. cat.) Foreningen Frans Kunst (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) 1926, no. 64.
3Art trade USA • ca. 1926/28 Two letters from Nobel Roede to the Kunsthalle Basel state that the painting had been sold to the United States via a Mr. Lie in France (Sèvres-et-Oise), State Archives Basel-Stadt, Archive of the Basler Kunstverein, PA 888a, N 6 [1] 239 III, Letters H. Nobel Roede, Oslo, to Dr. Wilhelm Barth [curator of the Kunsthalle], Basel, 21 March 1928 and 14 April 1928.
4Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • by 1964 Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Annual Report 1964, p. 2.
5Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • August 1964 Inv. 170. Acquired from the above by the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, and by the heirs of Emil Bührle, August 1964, for CHF 450.000, Annual Report as above, n. (4).
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris 1964. See also: Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1891–1903, Wildenstein Plattner Institute (ed.), https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction (Wildenstein Plattner)
Exhibitions
1914Fransk Kunst Statens Kunstmuseum • Kristiania (Oslo) • 1914 no. 27.
1926Paul Gauguin, Hans arbeider i skandinavisk eje (Ses œuvres dans les collections scandinaves) Foreningen Frans Kunst (Nasjonal-galleriet, Oslo • Nationalmuseum, Stockholm • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) • 1926 no. 64.
1946Fransk Utstilling Kunsternes Hus • Oslo • 1946, no. 27.
1963Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat Kunsthalle Hamburg • 1963 no 36.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 53.
1998Gauguin Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 1998 no. 5.
2000Paul Gauguin, Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti, Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne Landesmuseum Joanneum • Graz • 2000 no. 9.
2005Gauguin and Impressionism (Gauguin og impressionismen) Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen • Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (Texas) • 2005–06 no. 18 (Ordrupgaard only).
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 170.
2010Parigi, Gli anni meravigliosi, Impressionismo contro Salon Castel Sismondo • Rimini 2010–11 no. 25.
2016Scènes de la vie impressionniste, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Morisot…,Musée des Beaux-Arts Rouen • 2016 no. 36.
References
1937Pola Gauguin My Father Paul Gauguin, London & New York 1937, p. 54 (ill., & various translations and editions).
1946Hans Graber Paul Gauguin nach eigenen und fremden Zeugnissen Basel • 21946, p. 36 (ill.).
1964Georges Wildenstein Gauguin vol. 1 Catalogue Paris • 1964 • no. 26 (ill.).
1972Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922–1972 • Zurich • 1972 • no. 89 (ill.).
1968Françoise Cachin Gauguin Paris • 1968 • p. 43.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 78 (ill.; 21986).
1986Melissa McQuillan Impressionist Portraits London • 1986 • pp. 134–135 (ill.; French Edition: Les portraits impressionnistes, Paris 1986 • German edition: Porträtmalerei der französischen Impressionisten, Rosenheim 1986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle Zürich • Bern • 1994 • p. 48–49 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2000Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski • H. Travers Newton Jr. Technique and the Meaning in the Painting of Paul Gauguin 1873–89 Cambridge • 2000 • pp. 31–32, fig. 8.
2001Daniel Wildenstein Gauguin, Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage, Catalogue de l'œuvre peint (1873–1888) Paris & Milan • 2001 • vol. 1, no. 65 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 121 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).