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 (1848 - 1903), 1889 (original), c. 1895 (reissue)
zincograph in black on simili Japon, 32 cm x 47.2 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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Context
- Object number
- p0511M1986
- Dimensions
- 32 cm x 47.2 cm, 18.5 cm x 27.6 cm
- Catalogue raisonné
- Guérin 8,Mongan & Kornfeld & Joachim 3
- printmaker
- Paul Gauguin
- publisher
- Ambroise Vollard
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- signature
- P Gauguin
- inscription
- Les drames de la mer by Gauguin, Paul
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Guérin, Marcel, L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin, San Francisco, 1980, no. 8
Nederlandse Rijksmusea 1986, Amsterdam, 1987, p. 92
Eisenman, Stephen Frederick, Paul Gauguin : artist of myth and dream, Milano, 2007, p. 236-237
Joachim, Harold, Kornfeld, Eberhard W., Mongan, E., Paul Gauguin : catalogue raisonné of his prints, Bern, 1988, no. 3
Lemonedes, Heather, Thomson, Belinda, Juszczak, Agnieszka, Stolwijk, Chris, Stanton, M., Paul Gauguin : de doorbraak naar moderniteit, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 119-120, 139-146
Lemonedes, Heather, Thomson, Belinda, Juszczak, Agnieszka, Stolwijk, Chris, Stanton, M., Paul Gauguin : the breakthrough into modernity, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 14, 20, 58, 91, 108, 139, 141, 144, 162, 188, 239
Floyd, P.A., Seeking the floating world : the Japanese spirit in turn-of-the-century french art, [S.L.], cop. 1989, no.28
