Lot 40: After Paul Gauguin Idole à la perle, 1891 - 1893 / c. 1959 23.5 x 12.7 x 11.1cm (9 1/4 x 5 x 4 3/8in)

Idole à la perle, 1891 - 1893 / c. 1959
numbered '3/6' and stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the reverse)
bronze with brown patina
23.5 x 12.7 x 11.1cm (9 1/4 x 5 x 4 3/8in)

The original Idole à la perle is carved from tamanu wood and is part of the collection of Mme Agnés Huc de Monfreid. In 1959 Mme Huc de Monfreid authorized Valsuani to cast the set of reproductions in editions of six.

Literature
Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1963, no. 94, the original wood carving illustrated p. 97 (Plate XII), p. 217 and 218.