Paul Gauguin - Portrait d'homme 1884
Portrait d'homme 1884
59x74cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 1.17 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 6 November 2008
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, New York:
This accomplished and characterful portrait manifests Gauguin's effort to invent a more expressive and personal pictorial language in the early 1880s, or as he wrote to Pissarro, his attempt to paint "very broadly and not monotonously" (quoted in R. Brettell and A-B Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, exh. cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2005, p. 200).