Lot n° 134
Estimation :
1000 - 1500
EUR
GAUGUIN Paul. Noa Noa. Voyage à Tahiti. Paris, G. Crès et Ci - Lot 134
GAUGUIN Paul. Noa Noa. Voyage à Tahiti. Paris, G. Crès et Cie, [1936]; large in-4, publisher's raffia boards, title in red, the dust jacket fixed on a black morocco folder with case by Bérengère Polack.
Beautiful facsimile of the autograph journal kept by Gauguin during his first stay in Tahiti from 1891 to 1893. He illustrated it with numerous drawings, watercolors and woodcuts. Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, the last owner of the original manuscript, offered it to the Louvre Museum in 1927.
French edition printed in Berlin at 100 copies (n° 85). The dust jacket here well highlighted is decorated with woodcuts by Monfrais after Gauguin. A beautifully embellished copy by Bérengère Polack.
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue