Émile Bernard (1868-1941) Woman with geese. Lottery ticket. 1890. Woodcut. 160 x 125. Morane 23. Very fine proof on thin vellum, the peasant woman's dress colored in orange watercolor, signed in the center in royal blue brush and ink, and numbered "178". Fine median vertical crease and slight median oblique crease in the lower third. Some rare foxing. Small tear at lower left edge. Maculature on verso. Stamp R. T. This print appeared in the following exhibitions: Cent ans d'estampes en Bretagne, Le Faouët, 1998 (reproduced in catalog no. 157); Before and after Gauguin, Atlanta, 2008. This engraved lottery ticket was used to raise funds for the artist, who found himself penniless after his father cut him off. Bernard offered one of his canvases, a landscape from 1888, by lottery, to one of the subscribers who bought him a ticket for this tombola. According to Morane, "it does not appear that the artist issued more than 200 such tickets." He engraved three lottery tickets, in 1890-1891 (D. Morane, Emile Bernard, catalog raisonné de l'œuvre gravé, Musée de Pont-Aven, Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archéologie Jacques Doucet, Paris, 2000, p. 40). "Paul Gauguin mentions the fact in a letter to E. Bernard from Le Pouldu. Bernard from Le Pouldu in 1890: "Your letter reached me at the same time as I heard from Filiger, who told me that you had held a lottery! You should have sent us more like twenty tickets. Sérusier would have placed them with the Julian group at Pont-Aven. Unfortunately he's leaving tomorrow for the Auvergne, and I don't know enough about them to offer them." (Lettres de Paul Gauguin à Émile Bernard 1888-1891, Genève, P. Cailler, 1954, p. 134: lettre XX". (Quoted in M. Grivel, ed., Gauguin et l'École de Pont-Aven, exhibition catalog, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1989, p. 40).