Les Cigales et les fourmis
Details
Sheet 5 of the 10-part “Suite Volpini” printed by Gauguin in zincographic technique in 1889. Signed and titled in the zinc plate. Mongan/Joachim/Kornfeld 5 A b (of B); Guérin 10.Provenance:Collection of Alfred Beurdeley, Paris, with stamp (Lugt 421); private ownership, Northern Germany.
Description
Gauguin and his friends exhibited this suite for the first time at the Café des Arts run by Monsieur Volpini on the sidelines of the World Exhibition of 1889. To this day, this series is known as the “Suite Volpini”. The artist depicts various landscapes, peoples and cultures that he has studied on his travels: in Martinique, in Brittany or in the south of France, in Arles. The rare first print edition of these plates was made on canary yellow paper. The work “Cigales” was inspired by Gauguin’s stay in Martinique in 1887 in the company of Charles Laval.
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