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PAUL GAUGUIN

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PAUL GAUGUIN
(Paris 1848-1903 Fatu-Iwa/ Marquesas) Noa Noa, 1893-1894, colour woodcut on heavy, yellow-coloured Japanese paper, with title, monogram, and date, upper centre of the block, one of a maximum of 30 prints from the edition printed by Louis Roy 1894, block dim. 35.5 x 20.5 cm, sheet dim. 39.8 x 24.9 cm, passe-partout, with frame., Mongan/Kornfeld/Joachim 13 III D, (M). Provenance: Pierre Gallery, Stockholm (print listed in the Kornfeld cat.of works) reference number? This print is part of a series of ten woodcuts created by Gauguin in the winter of 1893/94 while visiting Paris in between his two sojourns in the South Seas. Based on his Tahitian drawings and sketches, the prints were originally intended as illustrations to "Noa Noa", a never-realized book he had conceived together with Charles Morice: "Je prépare en outre un livre sur Tahiti et qui sera très utile pour faire comprendre ma peinture. Que de travail". With "Noa Noa", a manuscript of which can be found in the Louvre, Gauguin had intended to describe his life on Tahiti. Of the woodcuts prepared for this purpose, Gauguin would first himself make individual original prints and then entrust his friend Louis Roy with printing an edition of a maximum of 30 copies each. In 1895, Gauguin took many of these prints with him to the South Seas, and used their backs for printing proofs of later woodcuts, destroying many of Roy's prints in the process.
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