Paul Gauguin
signature
authentication

LA TAHITIENNE

Signature is rarely sufficient for authenticating a painting, signatures must be checked, but results must be carefully placed in the correct context. A signature is only one element, and not a determining one, in the process of authentication.
Left: La Tahitienne, executed in Sanguine, chalk and pencil on paper. Signed 'P Gauguin' on the lower right.

La neige à Copenhague. Painted in 1884

Signed, dated and dedicated à mon ami Theodore P.Gauguin-84'. The oil on canvias, La neige à Copenhague is signed in the lower left.

Paysage aux troncs bleus. Painted in 1892

Paysage aux troncs bleus. Signed and dated 'P.Gauguin 92' in lower left An oil on canvas.

Petit berger Breton. Painted in 1888

Signed '- P Gauguin' (lower left). Gouache over pencil on silk.

Le vallon. Painted in 1892

Oil on canvas. Signed 'P Gauguin' in the lower left.

Jeune homme à la fleur. Painted 1891 Signed with initials 'PGO' (lower left) Oil on canvas

Jeune homme à la fleur. Painted in Tahiti, 1891, and signed with initials 'PGO' on the lower left. Oil on canvas.

Femmes tahitiennes et anges dans un atelier. 1901-1902

Executed in 1901-1902. Femmes tahitiennes et anges dans un atelier. Signed in monotype 'P. Gauguin' (lower right). Oil transfer heightened with gouache on paper.