1940s After Paul Gauguin, "The Artist's Mother" First Edition Swiss Full-Color Print

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A lovely vintage full-color print of portrait of The Artist's Mother (1893) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes … Read more A lovely vintage full-color print of portrait of The Artist's Mother (1893) by a major 19th-century painter, Paul Gauguin. Comes from a rare First Limited Edition art folio published by Albert Skira in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1940s. Printed on one side. Numbered at the lower right corner: 5. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the white border, never framed.

Overall 9.5ʺW × 11.9ʺH

"Gauguin may tell us he is making a portrait of his mother," wrote J.E. Blanche, "but the lady he really paints is--Botticelli's Primavera!" It is a fact that Gauguin hung a reproduction of that work on the wall of his studio. His mother was Aline Chazal, daughter of Flora Tristan, a Peruvian lady, whose father was Don Mariano Tristan y Moroso, and who is said to have been a niece of the Viceroy of Peru. "She was a pretty, gracefully built woman," Gauguin wrote of her, and elsewhere he speaks of "her gentle eyes, imperious yet full of tenderness." He painted this portrait from a photograph. Academic critics reproached him for the flagrant disparity of the eyes--a reproach they had made to Ingres, too. See less