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Pair of Wooden Shoes (Sabots)
Paul Gauguin1889/1890
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Pair of Wooden Shoes (Sabots)
- Creator Lifespan: 1848/1903
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Death Place: Marquesas Islands, Hivaoa
- Creator Birth Place: France, Paris
- Date Created: 1889/1890
- Physical Dimensions: w32.7 x h12.8 x d11.2 cm (overall)
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: Chester Dale Collection
- External Link: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Medium: polychromed oak, leather, and iron nails
- Theme: figure, double
- School: French
- 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.
- Artist: Paul Gauguin
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