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Eve
Paul Gauguin1890
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Eve
- Creator: Paul Gauguin
- Date Created: 1890
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 60.6 x 27.9 x 27.3 cm (23 7/8 x 11 x 10 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: On consignment from the artist at (Boussod-Valadon, Paris), late 1890.[1] Michel Manzi [1849-1915], Paris, by 1893?;[2] (his estate sale, Galerie Manzi, Joyant & Cie., Paris, 13-14 March 1919, 2nd day, no. 239).[3] Walther Halvorsen [1887-1972], Norway, 1921.[4] H. d'Oelsnitz, Paris, by 1928.[5] (Galerie Le Portique, Paris), by 1929.[6] Georges Pécout, Paris, by 1964.[7] (Galerie Beyeler, Basel);[8] purchased October 1970 by NGA. [1] John Rewald, "Theo Van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists", _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, 6th per., 81 (January-February 1973): 72. Claire Frèches-Thory in _The Art of Paul Gauguin_, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Washington, D.C., 1988: 183, claims Schuffenecker owned _Eve_, presumably on the basis of the 1891 Brussels exhibition catalogue in which his is the only lenders' name cited for Gauguin's entries there. However, his name appears below the last three entries, "4. trois vases (poterie)," as if these alone were his. That conclusion is supported by a letter from Schuffenecker to Octave Maus, the organizer of the _Vingtiste_ exhibition, cited in Rewald 1973: 68, n. 140, that reportedly claims he merely lent three ceramic pieces to the show--hence the three "pottery" vases. [2] This possibility was suggested by Victor Merlhès (personal communication) based on Gauguin's letter of early 1894, to be published in a forthcoming volume of the correspondence, that refers to _La Femme Noire_ in Gauguin's exhibition of 1893 at Durand-Ruel as belonging to Manzi. Merlhès' proposal challenges the current identification of this work as _Black Venus_ (Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York). [3] Sales catalogue, Galerie Manzi, Joyant & Cie., Paris, 14 March 1919, no. 239, repro. opp. p. 40. The piece reportedly sold for 1,980 francs. See the biography of Michel Manzi in the preface (pp. I-XII). [4] Anne-Marie Berryer, "A propos d'un vase de Chaplet décoré par Gauguin", _Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire_, 3d ser., 16, 1-2 (January-April 1944): 24, fig. 29. [5] Cited as the lender in _Gauguin. Sculpteur et graveur_, Exh. cat., Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1928: no. 32. [6] Illustrated and identified, as a _Maori-Mädchen_, as belonging to this gallery in Wilhelm Barth, "Eine unbekannte Plastik von Gauguin", _Das Kunstblatt_ 13 (June 1929): 182-183. [7] Merete Bodelsen, _Gauguin's Ceramics_, London, 1964: 138, 235. [7] In NGA curatorial files.
- Medium: glazed ceramic
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