Estimate 18,00022,000 GBP. A small sketch dating back more than a century has been valued at 200,000 after initially being dismissed as a copy. setTimeout(function(){ Graphite and watercolor on cream wove paper, discolored to tan (removed from a sketchbook). They attest to the role that Nuremberg played as a centre of printing as well as for the manufacture of scientific instruments. 43). regex: { 115, pl. The process of tracing, repeating, reversing and changing scales was fundamentally a process of transformation and was essential to Gauguin's oeuvre. Paul Gauguin Biography Born in Paris on 7 June 1849, Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin spent the earliest years in exile with his family in Lima, Peru, before returning to France. A small sketch by Paul Gauguin, the celebrated 19th-century French post-impressionist, has been valued at 200,000 after initially being dismissed as a copy. expiration_days: 5 var $form = $(formElement); Estimation 180,000 - 300,000. } public defenders death, A new California housing law has done little to encourage building, report says, Parts of California in for a quick shot of rain before drier weather arrives, Everyones worst nightmare: What we know about the California massacre that killed 6. 1893-94. A small drawing has been found to be an original sketch by Paul Gauguin valued at $267,000. callback: function() { Van Wyck Brooks, Paul Gauguins Intimate Journals (Indiana University Press, 1958), p. 205 (ill.). 3, 1958, cat. The maps show the stars of the forty-eight constellations based on Ptolemy's second century star catalogue, the Almagest. break; 3 (Mar. 30, 1912, cat. henri matisse (1869 - 1954), grande odalisque la. Poids des diamants: 4, A Chinese Imperial porcelain blue and white, underglaze copper-red and celadon vase. Seemann, Buch- und Kunstverlag, 1965), pp. + '<\/div>' Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Two Tahitian Women (1899) Photograph: Francis G Mayer/Corbis + '