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Materials:

Oil on board laid down on cradled panel

Measurements:

26.25 in. (66.68 cm.) (height) by 21.75 in. (55.25 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Barbazanges,. Paul Gauguin, Exposition d'oeuvres inconnues , 1919, no. 5 (titled . Femme caraïbe, La Martinique ). . New York, Marius de Zayas Gallery,. Exhibition of Paintings by . Paul Gauguin , 1920, no. 2 (titled . Caribbean Woman and Sunflowers ). . New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,. Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings , 1921, no. 46 (titled . Caribbean Woman and Sunflowers ). . New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,. Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Paintings , 1931, no. 46. . New York, Wildenstein & Co.,. Paul . Gauguin , 1946, no. 2 (titled . Caribbean Woman and Sunflowers, Martinique and dated . circa 1887). . Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts,. Paul . Gauguin 1848-1903 , 1956, no. 7, (titled . Caribbean Woman and Sunflowers and dated 1887-88). . Coral Gables, The Lowe Gallery of the University of Miami,. Paul . Gauguin 1848-1903 , 1956, no. 6 (titled . Caribbean Woman and Sunflowers and dated 1887-88). . Paris, Galerie Charpentier,. Gauguin , 1960, no. 33. . Munich, Haus der Kunst,. Paul . Gauguin , 1960, no. 45 (titled . Karibische Frau vor Sonnenblumen oder "Die Erste Eva" and dated 1889-90). . Miami, The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, . Renoir to Picasso , 1963, no. 58. . London, The Tate Gallery,. Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group , 1966, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue (titled. Caribbean Woman with Sunflowers ). . New York, Wildenstein & Co.,. The Dr. and Mrs. Harry Bakwin Collection , 1967, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue (titled . Nu et tournesols and dated 1887-88). . Tokyo, Kyoto et Fukuoka, 1969, no. 17. . Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,. The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde , 1978, no. 27, illustrated in color in the catalogue. . Aosta, Antico Convento Saint-Benin, Museo Archeologico Regionale,. Gauguin et i suoi amici Pittori in Bretagna, Pont-Aven et Le Pouldou, 1993, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue. . Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago & Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, . Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South , 2001-02, no. 107, illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled . Female Nude with Sunflowers ). . Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek & Seattle, Seattle Art Museum,. Gauguin Polynesia, 2011-12, no. 31, illustrated in color in the catalogue. . Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago,. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist , 2017-18, no. 76, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Charles Chassé,. Gauguin et le groupe de Pont-Aven , Paris, 1921, pp. 40 & 48. . Jean de Rotonchamp,. Paul Gauguin 1848-1903 , Paris, 1925, p. 77. . Forbes Watson, ed.,. John Quinn 1870-1925. Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture , New York, 1926, illustrated p. 59. . Henri Dorra, The First Eves in Gauguin's Eden in. Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, March 1953, pp. 192-94 & 225; illustrated p. 193 (titled . Eve ). . Charles Chassé, . Gauguin et son temps , Paris, 1955, p. 74. . John Rewald,. Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin , New York, 1956, p. 295 & illustrated p. 445 (titled . Caribbean Woman with Sunflowers ). . Christopher Gray,. Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin , Baltimore, 1963, illustrated p. 209. . Georges Wildenstein,. Gauguin , Paris, 1964, no. 330, illustrated p. 127. . Gabriele Mandel Sugana,. L'Opera complete di Gauguin , Milan, 1972, no. 194, illustrated p. 98. . . Le Chemin de Gauguin, genèse et rayonnement (exhibition catalogue), Musée Départmental du Prieuré, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1986, illustrated p. 121. . . Paul Gauguin (exhibition catalogue), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo & Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Aichi, 1987, illustrated p. 89. . . Gauguin's Nirvana, Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90 (exhibition catalogue), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, illustrated in color p. 75. . . The Lure of the Exotic, Gauguin in New York Collections (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, illustrated p. 164. . . Gauguin Tahiti (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'Orsay, Paris & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003-04, illustrated in a reconstruction of Marie Henry's inn p. 156. . Gregory Selch, ed., . The Bakwin Collection, Paintings and Sculpture, 1925-1970, Collected by Drs. Ruth & Harry Bakwin , New York, 2004, illustrated in color n.p. . Henri Dorra,. The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin, Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity , Berkeley, 2007, pp. 93-97, illustrated in color p. 96 (titled. Female Nude with Sunflowers ). . . Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity (exhibition catalogue), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland & Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2009-10, illustrated in color p. 173. . André Carious,. Gauguin et l'École de Pont-Aven , Paris, 2015, illustrated in a reconstruction of Marie Henry's inn p. 252

Provenance:

Marie Henry, La Pouldu & Kerfany, Brittany . . Galerie Barbazanges, Paris (acquired from the above on June 7, 1919). . Marius de Zayas, New York (acquired by 1920). . John Quinn, New York (acquired from the above on April 21, 1920). . The Drs. Bakwin, New York (acquired from the estate of the above in. 1926). . Thence by descent