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Dramas of the Sea (A Descent into the Maelstrom) (Les drames de la mer (Une descente dans le maelstrom)) from the series Volpini
Paul Gauguin, 1889

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Context
printmaker
printer
exhibition location
at the instigation of

Object data

Object number
p2438V2004
Dimensions
31.7 cm x 48.5 cm, 19.5 cm x 29 cm, 18 cm x 27.6 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Guérin 8, Mongan & Kornfeld & Joachim 3

Inscription/label

signature
P Gauguin
inscription
Les drames de la mer by Gauguin, Paul
number
MG8
mark
by Petiet, Henri Marie, Lugt no. 2021a
inscription
as. 9 b

Literature

  • Colta Feller Ives, The great wave : the influence of Japanese woodcuts on French prints, 1974, no. 107
  • Marcel Guérin, L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin, 1980, no. 8
  • Ed. by Stephen F. Eisenman, Paul Gauguin : artist of myth and dream, 2007, p. 236-237
  • Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin : catalogue raisonné of his prints, 1988, no. 3
  • Voorw. C. Griffith Mann, Axel Rüger ; Heather Lemonedes, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak ; met bijdragen van Chris Stolwijk, Moyna Stanton, Paul Gauguin : de doorbraak naar moderniteit, 2009, p. 119-120, p.139-146
  • Voorw. C. Griffith Mann, Axel Rüger ; Heather Lemonedes, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak ; met bijdragen van Chris Stolwijk, Moyna Stanton, Paul Gauguin : the breakthrough into modernity, 2009, p. 14, 20, 58, 91, 108, 139, 141, 144, 162, 188, 239
  • [Phylis Floyd], Seeking the floating world : the Japanese spirit in turn-of-the-century french art, cop. 1989, no. 28
  • [medewerkers Van Gogh Museum], Van Gogh Museum : jaarverslag 2004, 2005, p. 13, 41