PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903), after EMILE BERNARD... Lot 6

PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903), after EMILE BERNARD (1868-1941) Breton women picking apples Bronze bas-relief with brown patina Signed lower right Foundry stamp "?C. Valsuani Cire perdue? and numbered VII/XXV lower left 102 x 59 cm Brown patinated bronze low relief Signed lower right Foundry stamp "C. Valsuani Cire perdue" and numbered VII/XXV lower left 40 1/8 x 23 2/4 in. Posthumous proof after the upper panel of a wooden cabinet decorated by Émile Bernard in 1901. Provenance Private collection Bibliography Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1963, the cabinet referenced under n°A4 and reproduced in black and white on page 302. Henri Perruchot, Les années de jeunesse du peintre Emile Bernard, Le Jardin des Arts, Paris, n°162, May 1968, similar model reproduced on page 84. Jean Jacques Luthi, Armand Israël, Emile Bernard, sa vie, son œuvre, Catalogue Raisonné, Editions des Catalogues Raisonnés, Paris, 2014, cabinet reproduced in color on page 404.