Pair of Wooden Shoes (Sabots) [right]

Paul Gauguin1889/1890

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

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Title: Pair of Wooden Shoes (Sabots) [right]
Creator: Paul Gauguin
Date Created: 1889/1890
Physical Dimensions: overall: 12.8 x 32.7 x 11.2 cm (5 1/16 x 12 7/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Provenance: Marie Henry, Le Pouldu [1859-1945];[1] her daughter, Madame Ida Cochennec [b. 1891];[2] possibly Madame Lenoble, Paris;[3] (Etienne Bignou, Paris and New York), by 1928;[4] Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York, by February 1956;[5] bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] Christopher Gray, _Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin_, Baltimore, 1963: 200, claims Malingue had a photograph dating from 1889 that showed these with the _Figure of a Martinique Negress_, which is documented as belonging to Marie Henry. Maurice Malingue, "Du nouveau sur Gauguin", _L'Oeil_ 55-56 (July-August 1959): 37-38, himself lists among some old photographs of works belonging to her, a photograph of sabots taken in 1895, whose description matches only the National Gallery pair in size, polychromy, and decoration with human figures: "No. 7: Sabots de Gauguin sculptés et peints, 13 x 33 cm. Sur le dessus des sabots, dans un cercle, sont sculptées de petites Bretonnes." For a biography of Marie Henry ("Poupée"), see Jean-Marie Cusinberche, "La Buvette de la Plage racontée par...," in _Chemin de Gauguin: Génèse et rayonnement_, Exh. cat., Musée Départemental du Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1985: 114-115, 127. Gauguin stayed at her inn intermittently from the summer of 1889 through November 1890 (Charles Chassé, _Gauguin et le groupe de Pont-Aven. Documents inédits_, Paris, 1921: 25; Charles Chassé, _Gauguin et son temps_, Paris, 1955: 65-67; and Cahn in _The Art of Paul Gauguin_, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Washington, D.C., 1988: 47-49). For an account of Gauguin's lawsuit against Henry, to reclaim works left with her in 1890, see Chassé 1955: 89. [2] Malingue 1959: 36-38, and Cusinberche in Prieuré 1985: 115. [3] _Gauguin_, Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1959: no. 117. This information may instead apply to the other pair of sabots catalogued by Gray 1963, 201, as of these dimensions and belonging first to Ernest Chaplet, then to his daughter, Louise Lenoble. [4] Cited as the lender to the 1928 exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg. 5] Cited as the lender to the 1956 Society of the Four Arts exhibition in Palm Beach.
Rights: CC0
Medium: polychromed oak, leather, and iron nails

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