The Sacred Mountain (Parahi Te Marae) (Q20809015)
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painting by Paul Gauguin
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | The Sacred Mountain (Parahi Te Marae) |
painting by Paul Gauguin |
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1892
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PARAHI TE MARAE (Tahitian)
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Provenance Sale, Gauguin, Hôtel de Ventes, Paris, February 18, 1895, no. 26, bought in by Gauguin [1]. Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 16, 1908, no. 28; purchased by Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris, until at least 1936 [2]; sold to Étienne Bignou and owned jointly by Bignou Gallery, Paris and New York, and Alex Reid & Lefèvre Galleries, London, by January 1939 to 1940 [3]; with Étienne Bignou, Paris; sold by Bignou Gallery, New York, to Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, Devon, PA, January 27, 1940; gift to PMA, 1980.1. Of the 47 paintings in the sale, all but 9 failed to sell and were bought in by Gauguin. J. de Rotonchamp, Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1925, p. 155) and the Wildenstein catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1964, no. 483) state that the painting was purchased by Gauguin's friend Émile Schuffenecker; however, the procès-verbal of the sale records that the painting was bought back by Gauguin (see Gauguin: Exposition du Centenaire, Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 1949, catalogue by Jean Leymarie, app. II, p. 97); Gauguin used various friends as figurehead buyers at the sale. Moreover, Leymarie (app. III) reprints a letter written by Gauguin shortly after the auction to an unknown recipient, offering several paintings including "The Sacred Mountain" at the catalogue prices. 2. (English)
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1980-1-1
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91 centimetre
68 centimetre