Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

156 381 Eugène Henri Paul GAUGUIN FRENCH 1 848-1903 Les Vieilles Filles à Arles executed in 1889 signed in the plate lithograph Sheet size: 32 by 47cm R40 000–60 000 The following is an excerpt from an article published in the New York Times, 13 March 2014, relating to the exhibition, The Man, Not the Myth, Gauguin Metamorphoses , at the Museum of Modern Art: In 1889, he made the Volpini series of zincograph prints (named for the cafe in which they were exhibited), the first of three suites of prints that form the spine of the MoMA show. Printed on yellow paper with generous borders that are themselves unusual, they show him reprising paintings made in Brittany... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/arts/ design/gauguin-metamorphoses-at-moma- goes-beyond-paintings.html Editions of this print are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Art Institute Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; and de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco 382 Henri MATISSE FRENCH 1 869-1954 Danseuses Acrobates, one print executed in 1931/2 signed in the plate with the artist’s initials, aside from the edition of 25; inscribed in pencil on the reverse with the title, date and medium in another hand lithograph printed in sanguine sheet size: 51 by 38cm R25 000–35 000 381 382 383 © The Estate of Joan Miró | DALRO