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    Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher
    Paul Gauguin. Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher, 1880. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001616

    Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher

    by Paul Gauguin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Probably on deposit at Goupil, Boussard and Valadon by March 1893 and then sent to George Daniel de Monfreid [according to a letter from Joyant to Monfreid, March 24, 1893 as quoted in Jean Loize, Les amities du peintre Georges Daniel de Monfreid et ses reliques de Gauguin (Paris, 1951), pp. 93–4, no. 138, “I toile: nature morte, pot et cafeterie.”]. Possibly Émile Schuffenecker (1851-1934), Paris [‘Schuffenecker’ as the owner without first name is quoted in G. Wildenstein, 1964 and D. Wildenstein, 2001 as information given to G. Wildenstein by Jeanne Schuffenecker, Émile Schuffenecker’s daughter]; possibly Amédée Schuffenecker (1854-1935), Émile’s brother, after 1903. Private collection, Paris by 1947 [according to Cogniat 1947]. Dr B., ca. 1949 [according to exhibition catalogue, 1949]. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Ricksen, Palm Beach, Florida; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, October 21, 1971, lot 93 (ill.); Nathan Cummings (died 1985), Chicago and New York; acquired by the Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago, 1985 [memorandum of Norma Farrell dated April 4, 1985 concerning conservation]; given to the Art Institute in 1999.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Tableaux de la vie silencieuse, 1946, cat. 26bis (ill.), as Le Pot de terre et le pot de fer. Lyons, Musée dex Beaux Arts, Les Grands Courants de la peinture contemporaine, 1949, cat. 43 (ill. 16), as Le Pot de terre et le pot de fer. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation, September 9-December 25, 1990; traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, January 20-March 17, 1991, pp. 30-31. Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, Modern Masters: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation, January 15-March 12, 1995. Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy, October 18, 1997 – February 15, 1998, pp. 30-31. Singapore, Museum of Art, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation, April 1–May 30, 1999; traveled to Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11–August 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10–November 7, 1999; Oregon, Portland Art Museum, November 19, 1999–January 25, 1999; Chicago, Art Institute, March 15–May 28, 2000, cat. 12, as Clay Jug and Iron Jug. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002; traveled to Amsterdam, The Van Gogh Museum, February 9-June 2, 2002, fig. 51. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Gauguin and Impressionism: Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics, 1875–1887, August 20–November 20, 2005, cat. 13; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, December 18, 2005 - March 26, 2006. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, June 25-Sept. 10. 2017; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Oct. 9, 2017-Jan. 1, 2018.

    Publications

    Raymond Cogniat, Gauguin (Paris, 1947), p. 6 (ill.). Lee van Dovski (Herbert Lewandowski), Paul Gauguin oder die Flucht vor der Zivilisation (Olten-Bern, 1948, 1950), p. 339, no. 23. Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin (Paris, 1964), p. 22, no. 47 (ill.). Elda Fezzi, Gauguin (New York, 1980), pp. 22, no. 51, fig. 57. Richard R. Brettell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation (New York, 1986), pp. 30-31 (ill.). Belinda Thomson, Gauguin by Himself (Boston, 1993), pp. 32, 56 (color ill.). James G. Massey, Arthur J. Powell and Norm W. Wilson, Windows and Images: An Introduction to the Humanities (Needham Heights, Massachusetts, 1994), cover (color ill.). Douglas Druick, Peter Kort Zegers and Britt Salvesen, Gauguin (Chicago, 2001), pp. 72 (ill.), 107. Daniel Wildenstein with Sylvie Crussard and Martine Heudron, Gauguin: Premier itinéraire d’un sauvage: Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint (1873-1888) vol. 1 (Paris, 2001), pp. 67–68, no. 60 (color ill.). Elise Eckermann, ‘En lutte contre une puissance formidable’: Paul Gauguin im Spannungsfeld von Kunstkritik und Kunstmarkt (Weimar 2003), p. 275, pl. 9. “Gauguin, Cat. 1, Wood Tankard (1999.362),” in Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), https://publications.artic.edu/gauguin/reader/gauguinart/section/140163. Gloria Groom, ed. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/ Yale University Press, 2017). p. 14, 96, 98, 334, cat. 26. Claire Bernardi and Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat, Guaguin: L’alchimiste, exh. cat. (Musée d’Osay/ Réunion des muséea nationaux-Grand Palais/ Graphicom, 2017), p.54-55, 305, cat. 56.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
    Date
    1880
    Medium
    Oil on linen canvas
    Dimensions
    54 × 65 cm (21 1/4 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 82 × 7 cm (28 × 32 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
    Accession no.
    1999.362

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