Catalogue de l'exposition d'Oeuvres inconnues

Exhibition catalogue of Paul Gauguin's works at the Galerie Barbazanges, 109 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, from 10 to 30 October 1919.
Illustrated with Gauguin's splendid colour self-portrait with halo and serpent, wood-engraved by Jules Germain.
Essay by François Norgelet, entitled "Gauguin au Pouldu".
Catalogue of 28 works by Gauguin, including two lithographs and two plaster casts. Minute black spot in the margin of the front wrapper.

The exhibition at the Galerie Barbazanges revealed previously unknown works that Gauguin produced during his stay at Le Pouldu in Brittanny between 1889 and 1890. Living alongside Sérusier, Bernard, de Haan and Filiger, Gauguin painted there some one hundred imaginative and colourful canvases, inspired by this artistic retreat where they led a vibrant life of plein-air work and conversations in the thick smoke of cigarettes and pipes: "ils étaient tous trois pieds nus, débraillés superbement, au verbe sonore. Je vis l'un deux plus tard chez Mallarmé : c'était Gauguin" [They were all three barefoot, magnificently disheveled, with sonorous speech. I saw one of them later at Mallarmé’s: it was Gauguin], recalled André Gide in Si le grain ne meurt. Gauguin would leave the inn without settling his bill, leaving as a deposit most of the works he had created at Le Pouldu with his landlady and mistress Marie Henry. The innkeeper parted with them in 1919, at the time of this exhibition—with the exception of a Gardeuse d'oies and an Oie which Gauguin had painted directly on the plaster of the Breton inn, and were rediscovered in 1924.