József RIPPL-RÓNAI (Kaposvár 1861- Kaposvár 1927) - Lot 198

József RIPPL-RÓNAI (Kaposvár 1861- Kaposvár 1927) Portrait of Paul Gauguin in profile Circa 1890. Pastel on cardboard, dedicated and signed lower right "à Paul Gauguin, amical Souvenir Ronai". H. 49 cm - W. 39.5 cm Minor scratches, marks and old restorations on the left. Slight loss of material at the collar and above. Provenance : Maurice Malingue Collection. André and Françoise Kostolany Collection. Exhibition: "Les Rippl-Ronaï d'une collection privée", Paris, Institut Hongrois, exhibition from April 5 to May 2, 2005. Bibliography: L'Amateur d'Art, 1983, p.31,repr. Collectif, "Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven", exhibition catalog, Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven, 1997, reproduced p. 9. RIPPL-RÓNAl arrived in Paris in 1887 and worked for his compatriot, the famous painter Mihály MUNKACSY. In 1889, he spent some time in Pont Aven, where he discovered the work of GAUGUIN. In 1894, his painting Grand-mère (Hungarian National Gallery Inv. 4042) attracted the attention of GAUGUIN and the Nabis. He joined the group with his friend MAILLOL, and frequented Gauguin's studio. He befriended this community, which held him in high esteem for his talent. This magnificent portrait is an essential and moving milestone in the career of the artist nicknamed "The Hungarian Nabis". "The painting "Ma vieille mère" - and this is why I mentioned it before - brought me "closer" to Gauguin. It was this painting that most appealed to him, too, at the Champ de Mars Salon exhibition. Following our meeting there, he invited me to his studio on rue Vercingétorix. He was returning from Tahiti for the first time at the time, so he was almost completely Gauguin." (Excerpt from Rippl-Rónai's memoirs In Rippl Ronai, Catalogue of the exhibition "Rippl Ronai at the Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux from February 26 to March 13 1983", p. 30). "These two names, Gauguin's and Van Gogh's, are at the end of this "chapter". In the final analysis, they are perhaps the ones I have come closest to artistically - even if I have followed other paths. There is a certain resemblance between us, although none of us sought it. The common source from which all three of us drew must have been the soul-rooted analogy of a special chance and interpretation of nature and art. It's likely that the three of us were equally fond of the Chinese, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Orsagna, as well as the Japanese, and felt their influence spontaneously. Yet, I'm convinced, all three of us were different." (Excerpts from Rippl-Rónai's memoirs In Rippl Ronai, Catalogue of the exhibition "Rippl Ronai at the Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux from February 26 to March 13, 1983", p. 30). Bids for this lot are subject to prior registration with a deposit of 10% of the maximum bidding basket desired. Deposit on : https://www.debaecque.fr/caution-en-ligne