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Paul Gauguin: Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven  wikidata:Q20189908 reasonator:Q20189908
Artist
Paul Gauguin  (1848–1903)  wikidata:Q37693 s:fr:Auteur:Paul Gauguin q:en:Paul Gauguin
 
Paul Gauguin
Alternative names
Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description French painter and writer
Date of birth/death 7 June 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Atuona
Work location
Paris, Pont-Aven, Arles, Tahiti
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q37693

Details on Google Art Project
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Title
French:
La Ronde des petites Bretonnes

Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven
title QS:P1476,fr:"La Ronde des petites Bretonnes"
label QS:Lfr,"La Ronde des petites Bretonnes"
label QS:Lca,"La rotllana de les petites bretones"
label QS:Lde,"Der Reigen der kleinen Bretonninen, Pont-Aven"
label QS:Len,"Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1888
date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 92.7 cm (36.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,73U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,92.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 83
Accession number
1983.1.19
Object history

Acquired from the artist in November 1888 by (Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris and New York); sold 16 September 1889 to Montaudon.[1]
(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris), by 1922 until at least 1936.[2]
Possibly (Etienne Bignou, Paris).[3]
William A. Cargill [d. 1962], Carruth, Scotland, by 1956;[4]
(his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1963, no. 29); purchased for £75,000/$210,000 by Acciarri for (Hector Brame, Paris) for Paul Mellon, Upperville, [5]
VA; gift 1983 to NGA.

  1. ↑ According to La Ronde des petites Bretonnes, exh. cat., Musée des beaux arts, Rennes, 1997, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Listed in the Vollard inventory of 1 January 1922, as 'Danse bretonne 72 x 92 10000,' Archives Vollard, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Lent by Vollard to exhibitions in Paris and New York in 1936.
  3. ↑ A photograph of this painting is included in the albums from the Bignou Gallery, now at the documentation center of the Musée d'Orsay (copy, NGA curatorial files).
  4. ↑ According to John Rewald, Post-Impressionism from van Gogh to Gauguin, 1956, p. 289, the painting was in a private collection in Scotland at that time; this is probably Cargill.
  5. ↑ Annotated sales catalogue in the library of the National Gallery of Scotland; Acciarri also listed in Paul Mellon papers in NGA curatorial files.

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P. Gauguin 88
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