Paul Gauguin: 10 Traesnit (Pola Gauguin Portfolio), 1894, printed 1921

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Medium

a) original box, three-quarter black leather with woodcut-printed sides b) portfolio cover with photo-relief on blue-green wove card c) colophon with letterpress text on blue-green wove paper

Dimensions

overall (a. box): 56.5 × 40.5 × 2.8 cm (22 1/4 × 15 15/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
overall (b. portfolio cover): 53 × 37 × 1 cm (20 7/8 × 14 9/16 × 3/8 in.)

sheet (c. colophon): 44.6 × 34.5 cm (17 9/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 16, State ii/ii (Db)

Accession Number

1944.2.25.1-9

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist) French, 1848 - 1903

Pola Gauguin (printer) Danish, born France, 1883-1961

Christian Cato (publisher)

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Inscription

a) on original box, printed in gold-tooled letters on black leather label on front: TAHITIAN WOOD BLOCKS / BY / PAUL GAUGUIN / PRINTED IN COPENHAGEN / BY / POLA GAUGUIN, / THE PAINTER'S SON / EDITION LIMITED TO 100 SETS / SET NO. 55 / BLOCKS DESTROYED AFTER PRINTING; printed in gold-tooled letters on black leather spine: WOOD BLOCKS BY GAUGUIN; inside front of box at upper left, in graphite: 312 [underlined]; b) on portfolio cover: in image: P G O; below image: PAUL GAUGUIN; in graphite: B-4342-4351; c) on colophon, in letterpress text: PAUL GAUGUIN / 10 TRÆSNIT / TRYKT / MED ORIGINALPLATERNE / VED POLA GAUGUIN / HOS CHR. CATO / KØBENHAVN / TRYKT I 100 NUMEREREDE EKSEMPLARER / No. 55 [number hand written in pen and black ink]

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1927: Guérin, Marcel. L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.

1988: Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints. Berne: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.