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Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Vincent van Gogh Arles (1888 ) gift; to Paul Gauguin (1888-1897) sold. [Ambroise Vollard Paris.] [Paul Cassirer Gallery Berlin.] Dr. Hugo von Tschudi Berlin and then Munich by c. 1909 (1906-1911) by descent; to his widow Angela von Tschudi Munich (1911-1919) to Neue Staatsgalerie Munich (1919-1938); removed from the collection by the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities in 1938 (EK16554) consigned; to [Theodor Fischer Gallery Lucerne Switzerland for sale June 30 1939 lot 45]; to Maurice Wertheim (1939-1951) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1951.
Notes:
Gauguin sold the painting for Fr 300; this might be noted in Judith Gerard "Absence de Gauguin" a 1953 typescript seen by Jirit-Wasiutynski (see 1984 Fogg/Straus study note 46)
Hugo von Tschudi bought the painting for the Nationalgalerie Berlin with funds from sponsors but did not submit it to the Kaiser for pre-approval. He took the painting to Munich when he assumed a post there.
According to Stephanie Barron the van Gogh was removed from the Neue Staatsgalerie on March 27 1938 and stored at Schloss Niederschönhausen in August of that year. (Barron 1991 pp. 135-146)
Possible that Tschudi purchased the painting from Edouard Jonas? This is listed in Manet bis Van Gogh (1997) (ACA 7 15 23)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim Class of 1906
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