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Summary

Paul Gauguin : Français : Numéro original du Sourire, Journal sérieux.English: First issue of Le Sourire, a serious newspaper. (

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Artist



Alternative names	Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description	French painter and writer
Date of birth/death	7 June 1848	8 May 1903
Location of birth/death	Paris	Atuona
Work location	Paris , Pont-Aven , Arles , Tahiti
Authority file	: Q37693 VIAF : 27064953 ISNI : 000000012100026X ULAN : 500011421 LCCN : n79055546 NLA : 35115434 WorldCat

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) (page)

Collection

Louvre Museum ( Inventory )

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF : 257711507 ISNI : 000000012260177X ULAN : 500125189 LCCN : n80020283 NLA : 35912436 WorldCat

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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