Paul Gauguin (1848-1903 )Title for "The Smile". 1899. Woodcut. 218 x 140 [225 x 151]. Mongan, Kornfeld, Joachim 61. Very nice proof on japon pelure, numbered "n° 11" in ink in the subject on the left, glued by the corners on a fragment of vellum from a publication and bearing on the back an advertisement for lamps (1900s). Edition of 25 or 30 prints. In a letter to Ambroise Vollard dated 1900, Gauguin wrote: "I am sending next month by someone who is going to France about 475 proofs of woodcuts. Each plate is printed at 25 or 30 numbered, then the plates destroyed. Besides, half of them have been used twice and I am the only one capable of printing in this way. (Quoted in E. Mongan, E. W. Kornfeld, H. Joachim, Paul Gauguin, Catalogue raisonné of his Prints, Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, 1988, p. 155).