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Paul Gauguin: Français : Numéro original du Sourire, Journal sérieux.English: First issue of Le Sourire, a serious newspaper.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Paul Gauguin  (1848–1903)  wikidata:Q37693 s:fr:Auteur:Paul Gauguin q:en:Paul Gauguin
 
Paul Gauguin
Alternative names
Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description French painter and writer
Date of birth/death 7 June 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Atuona
Work location
Paris, Pont-Aven, Arles, Tahiti
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artist QS:P170,Q37693
Title
Français : Numéro original du Sourire, Journal sérieux.
English: First issue of Le Sourire, a serious newspaper.
Description
A drawing of Gauguin's Oviri figure.
Date 1899 (see Notes)
Dimensions height: 30.6 cm (12 in); width: 21.3 cm (8.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,30.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.3U174728
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institution QS:P195,Q19675
Inscriptions Under the drawing there is an inscription "Et le monstre, entréignant sa créature, féconde de sa semence des flancs généreux pour engendrer Séraphitus-Séraphita" (And the monster, embracing its creation, filled her generous womb with seed and fathered Séraphitus-Séraphita). Séraphitus-Séraphita is an allusion to Honoré de Balzac's fantasy novel Séraphîta which features an androgynous hero.
Notes
  • There are two Joconde database entries for this object: one as pages from Gauguin's journal, the other as the first issue of Gauguin's hectographed newspaper Le Sourire in Tahiti towards the end of his second stay there. Opinions differ as to the date. Barbara Landy favours 1899.
  • In this first issue of Le Sourire, Gauguin reviewed a play by a local Maori author, one of whose themes involved incest, and he invokes 'Séraphitus-Séraphita' in the course of his review. The review was favourable, congratulating the play's "savage author" and ending with a plea for women's sexual liberation by abolishing marriage (Taylor pp. 215-8).
References
  • Barbara Landy, The Meaning of Gauguin's 'Oviri' Ceramic, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 109, No. 769 (Apr., 1967), pp. 242+244-246
  • Brettell, Richard; with Peter Zegers (1988) "The Return to France" in The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, pp. 373−7 ISBN: 0-8212-1723-2.
  • Frèches-Thory, Claire; with Peter Zegers (1988) "The Return to France" in The Art of Paul Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, pp. 369−73 ISBN: 0-8212-1723-2.
  • Guérin, Marcel (1927) L'Oeuvre Grave De Gauguin, H. Floury
  • Taylor, Sue. Oviri: Gauguin's savage woman. Journal of Art History, Volume 62, Issue 3 / 4, 1993. 197 - 220
Source/Photographer Joconde image
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