Woodcut, 1898, a good, strong impression of the second (final) state, numbered 14 in ink to the left of the monogram, from an edition of approximately 40, cited in Kornfeld where only 26 other impressions of the same subject are recorded, printed by the artist in Tahiti, on Japon pelure paper

With margins, trimmed to the subject at sides, backed with a thin sheet of japan paper extending 8-10mm beyond the subject at sides, in good condition apart from a band of pale foxing at lower left between the monogram and another area of pale foxing at left below the branch, framed.
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Provenance: Galerie Kornfeld, sale 162, June 1977, lot 300; August Laube, Zurich