PAUL GAUGUIN PRINT c,1943 CHANGEMENT DE RESIDENCE

Paul Gauguin
French/ Tahitian, 1848-1903
C1943 Changement De Residence
Signed: Paul Gauguin Fecit (lr) within an oval cartouche; (in plate)
Print on thick paper
10 x 18.5 inches (art work)
13 x 22.5 inches (sheet size)

Condition report: Very good to excellent; Very minor browning to the paper. Otherwise excellent.

Additional Notes: Housed in its original rosewood frame with large mustard yellow professional matting further enhanced by its original wavy glass.

FWIW: This rich impression (after the original woodcut) was printed on thick off-white paper circa 1943.

Literature
E. Mongan, E.W. Kornfeld and H. Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, Bern, 1988, pp. 209-213, no. 54 (illustrated in color, p. 210).

Lot Essay about the original woodblock print Executed in 1899 by Paul Gauguin French/ Tahitian, 1848-1903: 'Gauguin’s sophisticated approach to woodblock printing. Exploiting the characteristics of fine oriental paper Gauguin was able to achieve a chiaroscuro effect by printing the block in one color, then re-cutting it and printing a second impression in a different, complimentary color. By pasting one sheet over the other, the semi-transparency of the paper meant that both impressions would be visible at the same time, in combination. In the case of Changement de résidence he printed thirty impressions in dark grey or ochre then re-cut the block, lightening the foreground, and printed a second edition of thirty in black. It was issued with the second state pasted over the first'

Very good to excellent; Very minor browning to the paper. Otherwise excellent. Housed in its original rosewood frame with large mustard yellow professional matting further enhanced by its original wavy glass.