PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)Mona-Mona (Savoureux)PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)Mona-Mona (Savoureux)signed and dated 'P GAUGUIN. 1901' (upper left) and titled 'MONA MONA' (lower left)oil on canvas laid down on board14 1/2 x 19 in. (37 x 48.1 cm.)Painted in 1901Details PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)Mona-Mona (Savoureux)signed and dated P GAUGUIN. 1901 (upper left) and titled MONA MONA (lower left)oil on canvas laid down on board14 1/2 x 19 in. (37 x 48.1 cm.)Painted in 1901 Provenance (possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist, circa December 1902).Mme Besnard, Paris.Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 11 May 1906).Paul Cassirer, Paris (acquired from the above, 29 May 1906).Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 13 August 1906).Paul Jamot, Paris (acquired from the above, 26 November 1906, until at least 1937).Richard A. Peto, Isle of Wight (by 1947).Rosemary Peto, London (by descent from the above, 1963).Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired from the above, 1967).Paul and Rachel Bunny Mellon, New York (acquired from the above, 1967).Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired from the above, 1986).Anon. sale, Sothebys, New York, 2 November 2010, lot 36.Acquired at the above sale by the late owners. Literature R. Homo, F. Rouget and J. Trillat, Ministère des Colonies: Exposition coloniale internationale de 1931, rapport général présenté par le gouverneur Général Olivier, Paris, 1933, vol. 5, p. 839.J. de Laprade, La vie ardente de Paul Gauguin in Beaux-arts, vol. 74, no. 203, 20 November 1936, p. 2 (titled Nature morte aux fleurs et aux fruits).R. Charmet, Aventurier de la peinture et de la vie: Gauguin sest cherché quarante ans in Arts, lettres, spectacles, no. 758, 20-26 January 1960, p. 9.K. Morand, Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Paris in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 102, no. 684, March 1960, p. 128.D. Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, vol. 1, p. 258, no. 608 (illustrated).M. Bodelsen, The Literature of Art: The Wildenstein-Cogniat Gauguin Catalogue in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 754, January 1966, p. 28, no. W.608.B. Danielsson, Gauguins Tahitian Titles in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 109, no. 769, April 1967, p. 231, no. 33.G.M. Sugana, LOpera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, p. 113, no. 418 (illustrated, p. 111, no. 417; titled Fiori et frutta (Mona Mona)).E. Fezzi, Gauguin: Every Painting, New York, 1980, vol. 2, p. 80, no. 575 (illustrated, no. 572).M. Jakobi, Gauguin-Signac: La genèse du titre contemporain, Paris, 2015, pp. 98 and 195, no. 156 (illustrated, p. 195).D. Wildenstein, S. Crussard and R.R. Brettell, Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1891-1903 (digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/introduction), no. W608 (illustrated in color). Exhibited Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Fleurs et natures mortes, November 1907, no. 20.Paris, Galerie Le Portique, Paul Gauguin: Peintures, sculptures, February 1931, no. 13.Paris, Palais de la Porte-Dorée, Exposition coloniale internationale, May-November 1931.Paris, La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, La vie ardente de Paul Gauguin, November 1936-January 1937, p. 63, no. 83.London, Arts Council, French Paintings from Mr Petos Collection, 1947-1948, no. 11.London, Arts Council, French Paintings: A Second Selection from Mr Petos Collection, 1951-1952, p. 10, no. 11.Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent œuvres de Gauguin, January-March 1960, no. 161 (illustrated).Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, April-May 1960, pp. 14 and 45, no. 73 (illustrated, p. 45).Plymouth City Art Gallery, French Impressionists and English Paintings and Sculpture from the Peto Collection, November 1960, p. 9, no. 33 (illustrated, pl. IV).London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London, The French Impressionists and Some of their Contemporaries, April-May 1963, pp. 29 and 38, no. 69. Conditions of saleThe Artistic Journey – A Distinguished West Coast Collection