Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters)

Paul Gauguin1898

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Title: Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters)
Creator: Paul Gauguin
Date Created: 1898
Physical Dimensions: overall: 74 x 95.3 cm (29 1/8 x 37 1/2 in.) framed: 90.8 x 111.4 cm (35 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.)
Provenance: The private collection of Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1919 until at least 1935.[1] Acquired 1947 by (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold 1947 to Leigh B. [1905-1987] and Mary Lasker Block [1904-1981], Chicago,[2] until at least 1964.[3] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, VA, by 1966;[4] gift 1973 to NGA. [1] The painting was published in Bernheim-Jeune's _L'Art Moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois_ in 1919. It was lent in 1927 by Bernheim-Jeune to _The Classics of Modern Paintings_, at De Hauke & Co., New York, and then published by Bernheim-Jeune in Arsène Alexandre, _Paul Gauguin, sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre_ in 1930, and in Bernheim-Jeune's 1935 catalogue, _Quelques tableaux d'Ingres à Gauguin_, no. 7, reproduced. [2] See letter dated 18 June 1999 from Wildenstein & Co., in NGA curatorial files. [3] The painting was published as in the Block collection in Wildenstein's 1964 catalogue raisonné. It was not included in the 20 May 1981 sale of the Block collection held at Sotheby's, New York. [4] Exhibited with Paul Mellon Collection at the National Gallery of Art in 1966.
Medium: oil on canvas

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