Paul Gauguin - Les dindons, Pont-Aven 1888
Les dindons, Pont-Aven 1888
91x71cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 2.96 million
Auction house: Christie's, London
Sale date: 4 February 2009
Seller: Private Collection, Europe
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, London :
Les dindons, Pont-Aven was painted in 1888, during Paul Gauguin's second long stay in the Breton town. This period was to become one of the most important in the career, the life and indeed the legend of Gauguin. It was during this stay that he and Emile Bernard in particular consolidated the ideas of Synthetism that were to come to have such an influence on so many artists both at the time and afterwards.