Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Important French post-Impressionist painter. Gauguin began as a stockbroker, but abandoned the market in 1883 to devote his life to art. Initially influenced by the Impressionists, he soon departed from the style and alienated himself from them. In 1891, he traveled to Tahiti, where the brilliant hues and primitive sculpture closely complemented his own art, which was marked by strong colors, few lines, and flat patterns. He died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903. Rare ALS in French, signed “Gauguin,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter to fellow painter Camille Pissarro. In part (translated), with a portion of the text written vertically along the left edge: “I am looking forward with pleasure to your son’s arrival, and hope that he is not going to stay Manet’s but at my place instead. I must send the paintings to Norway, it is about time. If you still plan to exhibit your paintings, Lucien should bring them so I can send them with mine in one single shipment. Four or two drawings of watercolors and two paintings. I plan to send the same thing. How can you think of having another child, the timing is not very good, but it’s true that one does not always know what one wants. I am writing in a hurry ….” Cloth matted and framed with a color portrait of the artist to an overall size of 16.5 x 14. Central horizontal and vertical fold, one through a single letter of signature, and a lightly trimmed right edge, otherwise fine condition.
Gauguin met Pissarro around 1875 and studied under the older artist. At first struggling to master the techniques of painting and drawing, he eventually earned invitations to Impressionist exhibitions from 1880 to 1882, and spent holidays painting with Pissarro, further honing his skills and cultivating friendships that also included Manet. That familiarity is on display here as Gauguin speaks at length about artwork, explaining that “it is about time” he send paintings to Norway and offering to send painting together to defray shipping costs. Incidentally, the French pioneers who developed Impressionism left their mark throughout all of Europe, including exhibitions in such Scandinavian countries as Norway. Heavy artistic content penned by one of the masters.
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