Created for his first solo exhibition in Paris in twenty years, the seventeen oil paintings and twenty gouaches from his sarcastic vache period, including the provocative The Stop, were all completed within about five weeks. (lacma.org)
Tan vache leather exterior trimmed with silver buckle hardware. (1stdibs.com)
The catalogue's entry for this lot also includes a small color reproduction of another Gauguin work of the same year, «Marine avec vache au dessus, du gouffre,» in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris that is a highly abstract work of great vigor. (thecityreview.com)