1940s After Paul Gauguin "Vahine No Te Tiare" First Edition Swiss Photogravure

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An excellent vintage photogravure, print, of portrait "Vahine No Te Tiare" (1891) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes … Read more An excellent vintage photogravure, print, of portrait "Vahine No Te Tiare" (1891) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes from a rare First Limited Edition art folio published by Albert Skira in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1940s. Printed on one side. Titled at the top center of the piece, "Vahine no te Tiare", and signed in the top right corner, "P. Gauguin". Numbered at the lower right corner: 2. Detailed. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the white border, never framed.

"I wished to establish the artist's right to dare everything," Gauguin wrote to his friend Daniel de Monfreid. The portrait of this vahine has all the distinction of Florentine art; but also there are innovations which bespeak the artist's daring. The back of an imaginary sofa is painted in flat unmodeled color, and most noteworthy of all is the way in which some of the leaves and flowers painted on the wall overflow onto the back of the seat. We have here a bold pictorial innovation which Fauves and Cubists were soon to turn to account. See less