Study of a Martinican Woman

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), 1887

chalk on paper, 35.8 cm x 27 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Object number
d0664V1962
Dimensions
35.8 cm x 27 cm, 69.5 cm x 54.5 cm
Provenance
Handed over by the artist, Pont-Aven to Héloïse Bernard-Bodin to deliver to Theo van Gogh, Paris in return for a gift of FRF 50; delivered by Héloïse Bernard-Bodin to Theo van Gogh, probably early December 1888; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Paul Gauguin
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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