PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903) Maternité II

PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
Maternité II
signed and dated ‘Paul Gauguin 1899’ (lower right)
oil on burlap
37 1/4 x 24 in. (94.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in Tahiti in 1899

Provenance
The artist; Estate sale, Papeete, 2 September 1903, lot 104.
Jean Cochin, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Denys Cochin, Paris (1906).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 28 February 1910).
Alphonse Kann, Paris (acquired from the above, 28 February 1910).
(possibly) Michel Manzi, Paris (circa 1915).
Dikran Khan Kélékian, Paris and New York (by 1920); sale, American Art Association, New York, 30-31 January 1922, lot 152.
Bourgeois Gallery, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Adolph Lewisohn, New York (by 1926).
Sam Lewisohn, New York (by descent from the above, circa 1942).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1942).
Mrs. Henry Huttleston Rogers Jr. (acquired from the above, 1943, until at least 1948).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above).
Edwin C. and Florence Vogel, New York (acquired from the above, 1952).
David Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above, 1956).
John Seward Sr. and Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton (acquired from the above, circa 1975, until at least 1990).
Nevill Keating Pictures, Ltd., London.
Private collection (acquired from the above, circa 1997); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 2004, lot 15 (world auction record for the artist at the time of sale).
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.