Keywords: Larousse Archives - Paul Gauguin at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition posing before.jpg en Publicity photograph for Paul Gauguin's 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition http //www larousse fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Paul_Gauguin/120941 Larousse archives 1894 Object type Photograph author PD-old-70-1923 Gauguin is shown posing before his painting Te Faaturuma at his 1893 Durand-Ruel exhibition The exhibition was a comparative failure with the Parisian public unable to understand or appreciate his paintings Of some 40 canvases displayed just eleven were sold Edgar Degas however praised his work and purchased Te Faaturuma either at the exhibition or some years later as he later recollected from the dealer Ambroise Vollard The photograph first appeared in Roger-Marx 1894 Roger-Marx Claude Revue artistique Exposition Paul Gauguin in Revue Encylopédique no 76 1 February 1894 cite book Stuckey Charles F with Peter Zegers The Art of Paul Gauguin National Gallery of Art 1988 231 The First Tahitian Years 0-8212-1723-2 88-81005 https //books google com/books id NZt2oj5S-wQC pg PA57 v onepage q f false Ann Dumas ed The Private Collection of Edgar Degas Volume 1 p 57 Uploaded with UploadWizard Portraits of Paul Gauguin |