Vase aux quatre dieux

Terre cuite cylindrique à base rectangulaire numérotée 10/12 à l’intérieur

H. 36 cm L. 13 cm P. 16 cm

Réalisée par M. Bauduin en 1970 d’après l’original en terre cuite conservé au Musée d’Orsay. "Executed after a carved wood, this terracotta made in very few rare specimens is the synthesis of the mysterious presences that populate the life of the inhabitants in Polynesia. The figures represented are none other than the inhabitants of the small island where Gauguin had chosen to live. Apparently these are normal scenes, two figures are talking, Hina and Teatoa. Another brandishes a kind of spear, most likely the branch of a tree, and a standing figure standing stares at something in front of her. The normality of these scenes is transfigured by the desired primitiveness of Gauguin, who manages to create in the observer a sort of fear as if he were in the presence of some magical spirit. The strength of the sign of Gauguin, coming out overwhelmingly from the artwork, manages to make visible even hidden aspects of our subconscious. This terracotta is permanently exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design in Denmark; and has been recently exhibited in the great Gauguin exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York" (from the catalogue of the exhibition in Catania)

> Collection Paressant, France > Private Collection, Italy

> Graveurs en Bretagne, Musée de Pont-Aven, 1980 (reproduced in the catalogue, n. 252) > Christopher Gray, Sculptures et céramiques de Paul Gauguin (reproduced in the catalogue, n. 115) > Gauguin, Diario di Noa Noa, Barolo, 2019 (reproduit dans le catalogue d’exposition, p. 53) > Percorsi e Segreti dell'Impressionismo, Catania, 2018-2019 (reproduit dans le catalogue d’exposition p. 146-7)

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