André LHOTE (1885-1962) - Lot 58

André LHOTE (1885-1962) Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? after Gauguin Oil on canvas, located Tahiti lower right (Epidermures, craquelures, lined) 93 x 73 cm Copy of the central part of Paul Gauguin's painting in the Boston Museum. Provenance: former Gabriel Frizeau collection André Lhote was 21 when he was introduced to Gabriel Frizeau and invited to see his collection. Guy Marandet reports that André Lhote "was astonished to see works by Gauguin and Odilon Redon hanging in the large study. He admired five Gauguins: the man driving a horse through a forest, two Tahitian bathers, the back of a woman lying down, an 1894 landscape of Brittany and the famous painting Que sommes nous? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Boston Museum). André Lhote would copy these Gauguins in the weeks that followed. "I was a fauve by instinct", he would say, in Les cahiers Dromois, n° 16, 2004, p. 14.