Inscription
lower right: P. Gauguin. 90-
Provenance
Purchased 1890 by Octave Maus [1856-1919], Brussels; by inheritance to his wife Madeleine Maus, Brussels, until c. 1945; by inheritance to Paul Fierens [1895-1957], Brussels, by 1947;[1] his widow; sold 1957 to (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris);[2] sold 1957 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1983 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1904
- La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, 1904, no. 49.
- 1922
- Les Maîtres de l'Impressionnisme et leur temps, Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts de Belguique, 1922, no. 18.
- 1928
- Paul Gauguin 1848-1903. Kunsthalle, Basel, 1928, no. 69.
- 1928
- Paul Gauguin, Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin, 1928, no. 48.
- 1947
- Exposition de l’Art Vivant dans les Collections Privées Belges, Galerie Georges Giroux, Bruxelles, 2 – 19 June 1947, no. 33.
- 1949
- Gauguin: Exposition du Centenaire, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1949, no.22.
- 1949
- Paul Gauguin, Kunstmuseum Basel, 1949-1950, no 39.
- 1959
- Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, National Gallery of Art, 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro., as Brittany Landscape
- 1960
- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni: An Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960, no. 72, repro.
- 1966
- French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 125, repro
- 1986
- Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist
- 1988
- The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago; Grand Palais, Paris, 1988-1989, no. 109.
- 1989
- Gogen: Vzgliad iz Rossli, The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1989
- 1998
- Paul Gauguin, Tahiti, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany, 1998, no. 6, repro.
- 2001
- Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 2001, no. 12, fig. 60, as The Valley of Kerzellec, Le Pouldu.
- 2009
- Meijer de Haan, le maître caché [A Master Revealed: Meijer de Haan], Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, 2009-2010, no. 104, repro.
Bibliography
- 1929
- Barth, Wilhelm. Paul Gauguin. Basel, 1929: 94-95, pl. XXI as Le Pouldu, (75 x 92 cm.) Privatbesitz Brüssel.
- 1964
- Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris, 1964: no. 398.
- 1966
- French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966: repro. no. 125.
- 1966
- Goldwater, Robert. "The Glory that was France." Art News 65 (March 1966): 49, repro.
- 1966
- Kuh, Katherine. "Golden Loans for a Silver Anniversary." Saturday Review (19 March 1966): repro. 48.
- 1966
- Young, Mahonri Sharp. "The Mellon Collections: The Great Years of French Painting." Apollo 83 (June 1966): 431, repro.
- 1972
- Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Milan, 1972: no. 233, repro.
- 1981
- Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Milan, 1981: no. 233, repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 170, repro.
- 1988
- Bretell, Richard R. 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: 189, no. 109, repro.
- 1993
- Thomson, Belinda, ed. Gauguin by Himself. New York, 1993: no. 306, repro.
- 2000
- Paul Gauguin: Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti. Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne. Exh. cat. Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000: 92, repro.
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