GAUGUIN PAUL (1848-1903). Lot n° 20

Catalog of the "Exposition d'oeuvres inconnues", Barbazanges gallery, Paris, October 10 to 30, 1919, first edition. In-8 (slight tear in the cover with missing). Lithograph in colors reproducing the Portrait of Gauguin by himself painted in 1889. This exhibition presented 22 paintings and 7 art objects (painted plaster, carved wood, lithography) from Gauguin's period in Pouldu, Brittany, in 1889 and 1890. The artist lived in Marie Henry's inn, surrounded by a generation of painters such as Emile Bernard, Sérusier and Filiger. "He painted there in a few months a series of masterpieces more and more free, colorful, imaginative" (Françoise Cachin) such as Le Christ jaune and La Belle Angèle. Gauguin at Le Pouldu invented "synthetism" or "primitivism" which was to enthuse the critics: Octave Mirbeau was to speak of a "disturbing and delicious mixture of barbaric splendor, Catholic lithurgy, Hindu reverie, Gothic imagery, obscure and subtle symbolism" (February 1891). Cartel: (Paris, 1848 - Atuona (Marquesas Islands), 1903) First edition Exhibition of unknown works, Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, October 10 to 30, 1919. This exhibition presented 22 paintings and 7 art objects (painted plaster, scullppered wood, lithography) from Gauguin's period in Pouldu, Brittany, in 1889 and 1890. The artist lived at Marie Henry's inn, surrounded by a generation of painters such as Émile Bernard, Sérusier and Filiger. During this period, Gauguin painted canvases (The Yellow Christ, La Belle Angèle), increasingly colorful and imaginative. Octave Mirbeau spoke in February 1891 of a "disturbing and delicious mixture of barbaric splendor, Catholic liturgy, Hindu reverie, Gothic imagery, obscure and subtle symbolism.