PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903) Mask of a Young Tahitian... Lot 3

PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903) Mask of a Young Tahitian Girl "Tehura Bronze proof with brown patina On the back : bas relief representing Eve Foundry stamp " Cire Perdue C. Valsuani" on the bottom Posthumous casting 20 x 18 cm On a base: 13 cm Provenance Private collection Bibliography Christopher Gray, Sculpture and ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1963, wooden model reproduced on page 98 Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Les éditions de l'Amateur, France, 1996, similar model reproduced on page 353. This bronze was cast from an original work in wood, made around 1892 and kept in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay