Avant et après - drawing "Les ailes sont lourdes. Le tout est primitif"

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Maker

(author)
1848-1903

Title

Avant et après - drawing "Les ailes sont lourdes. Le tout est primitif"

Date of Production

1903

Medium

pen and black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 29 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Object Number

MS.2020.XX.1.123

Mode of Acquisition

HM Government (Acceptance in Lieu), allocation, 2020

Credit

Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2020

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Inscription: upper right corner, black ink, page number: "123"; lower right, black ink, signed with artist's initials: "P.G."; lower centre, black ink, titled: "Les ailes sont lourdes. Le tout est primitif".

Provenance

See MS.2020.XX.1.

Literature

Paul Gauguin: monotypes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 23 March - 13 May 1973, 1973
under no. 103

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