Projet pour une assiette-Leda (Project for a Plate Decoration - Leda)

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Artist

Gauguin, Paul

nationality

French

birth-death

1848-1903

Creation date

1889

Collection

Prints

Materials

zincograph with hand-coloring laid down on portfolio

Dimensions

8 x 8 in. (image) 11 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (sheet)

Not Currently On View

Credit line

Gift of Samuel Josefowitz in tribute to Bret Waller and Ellen Lee

Accession number

1998.191

Deaccessioned on

December 17th, 2009

Transfer notes

To Be Determined

Reason

Duplicate/Redundant

Valuation

Estimated Value IMA Staff - $125000

Provenance
Gallery Label

Provenance

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Paul Sérusier [1863-1927], Paris and Châteauneuf du Faou; by inheritance to his widow, Marguerite Sérusier [1879-1950]; to her friend Paule Henriette Boutaric, Paris;{1} posthumous sale of Boutaric collection at (Ader Picard Tajan, Paris) in 1984;{2} Sam Josefowitz, Lausanne; given to Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1998.

{1}Paule Henriette Boutaric collaborated on the publication by Marcel Guicheteau, Paul Sérusier, Paris, 1976.
{2}Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, "Tableaux Modernes, Dessins, Aquarelles, Sculptures, Estampes provenant de la succession P. Sérusier et de la succession de Mademoiselle Boutaric, 19-20 June 1984, lot. no. 475 (ill.)

Gallery Label

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This image, glued to a simple cardboard folder covered with marbled paper, served as the cover for Gauguin's albums of Volpini prints.

The subject is the Greek myth of Leda's liaison with Zeus in the guise of a swan. Its composition, drawn to suit a circular format, is based on Gauguin's design for a ceramic plate.

The inscription, seen in reverse since it was written on the printing plate, could be translated as "Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," a reference to Gauguin's focus on sexual hypocrisies.

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