Landscape with Poplars

Clara Gauguin, wife of the artist's son, Copenhagen, Denmark. Bekgaard, Copenhagen. {1} Sold at (Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen) in 1936; {2} Axel Bruun, Copenhagen. {3} L. (Louis) F. Foght, Copenhagen; Sold at (Sotheby's, London, England) in 1960; {4} (John Mitchell, London); {5} Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer [1892-1979], Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1960; {6} Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1982 (82.54). ------- {1} This early provenance is found in Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: A Savage in the Making Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888), volume 1, Paris, Milan, 2002, catalogue no. 13. {2} Merete Bodelsen notes that this painting was lot 51 at auction at Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 01 April 1936 (auction no. 196), and that it sold to Axel Bruun, Copenhagen. See Meret Bodelsen, The Dating of Gauguin's Early Paintings, Burlington Magazine, volume 107 (June 1965), p. 310. {3} See footnote above. {4} Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of Important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part II, including…The Property of the late Louis Foght, 06 July 1960, lot 167 (illustration). Although the first Wildenstein catalogue raisonné, Gauguin: Catalogue I, Paris, 1964, lists the name Johan Rohde as a former owner, this was not the case. (Paintings owned by the late Mrs. Asa Johan Rohde were present in the 06 July 1960 sale at Sotheby's which may account for this confusion.) {5} The list of "Prices and Buyers'’ Names" identifies John Mitchell as the buyer of lot 167. {6} For biographical material on Pantzer, see A Passionate Eye and a Public Spirit: Kurt F. Pantzer and the J.M.W. Turner Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1992.