In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)

On consignment with Boussod & Valadon, Paris, FR. (Gauguin sale, Paris, FR, February 23, 1891, lot 14, to M. Jeanson) (Joseph Hessel, Paris, FR, March 1906, sold to Gustave Fayet) (Gustave Fayet [1865–1925], Paris, FR, February 1907, sold to Ambroise Vollard) (Paul Éluard, Paris, FR, who probably bought it at Galerie Dru in 1923) (Drouot, Paris, FR, December 12, 1927, lot 103, sold to Hessel) Leicester Galleries, London, UK. Purchased by Frank H. Ginn, Cleveland, OH Mr. and Mrs. Powell Jones, Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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