Paul Gauguin, Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso)
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Paul Gauguin

Sketches of Figures and Foliage (recto); Profile of Charles Laval with Palm Tree and Other Sketches (verso)

1887

Current Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Medium
Black fabricated chalk with watercolor, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to light gray (recto); black fabricated chalk, with pen and brown ink, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to bluish-gray (verso) (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions
26.9 × 20.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-200630

A work made of black fabricated chalk with watercolor, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to light gray (recto); black fabricated chalk, with pen and brown ink, on mottled blue wove paper with blue fibers, altered to bluish-gray (verso) (removed from a sketchbook).

Provenance

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation

Registry history

  • 1887 — Recorded in the collection of Art Institute of Chicago — drawings

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