Lot 21: PAUL GAUGUIN | Brush Holder, 1887

Inscribed with the artist's monogram P. Go, dated 1887, situated Martinique and dedicated  à Schuff lower

Height: 19,6 cm; 7 3/4 in.

Inscribed with the artist's monogram <em>P. Go</em>, dated <em>1887, </em>situated<em> Martinique </em>and dedicated <em>à Schuff </em>lower

Paris, Nunès et Fiquet, Exposition Paul Gauguin, March 7-31, 1917, no. 26
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc, Paul Gauguin, April 3-May 4, 1946, no. 57, illustrated in the catalogue p. 78
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc, Gauguin, April 5-May 5, 1956, no. 99

Charles Morice, 'Gauguin the sculptor', in Zolotoe Runo, 1909, no. 1, p. 5-14 and no. 10, p. 47-52
Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, 1963, no. 48, illustrated p. 162
Yann Le Pichon, Sur les traces de Gauguin, Paris, 1986, illustrated p. 64

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paris (gift from the artist)
Amédée Schuffenecker, Paris (brother of the above, until 1926)
Mak, Amsterdam, December 21-22, 1926, lot 312
Jean-Baptiste de la Faille (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie St. Etienne (Otto Kallir), New York ( circa 1946)
Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1980, lot 109
Seymour Stein (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, December 11, 2003, lot 113
Collection Jacques Grange, Paris