Paul Gauguin
Upaupa Schneklud (The Player Schneklud)
1893
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Paul Gauguin
Upaupa Schneklud (The Player Schneklud)
1893
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 36 1/2 × 28 7/8 in. (92.7 × 73.3 cm.)
Framed: 45 × 37 1/2 × 3 5/8 in. (114.3 × 95.3 × 9.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Given by Hilda K. Blaustein in Memory of her late Husband, Jacob Blaustein
Object Number
1979.163
Upaupa Schneklud represents the Swedish composer and violoncellist Fritz Schneklud (1859–1930), with whom Gauguin was casually acquainted through mutual friends in Paris. Gauguin may have based the posture of the musician in his painting on a photograph of Schneklud, but the artist superimposed many of his own features to cast the painting as a self-portrait.
An ambiguous inscription in the upper left corner of the composition reads “Upaupa Schneklud,” or “The Player Schneklud.” ’Upa’upa alludes to a traditional and rhythmic dance of Tahiti.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1979; from Hilda K. Blaustein, Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Blaustein, Baltimore; by purchase from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., NY, October 17, 1940, no. 69, (ill as "Le violoncelliste (Portrait of M. F. Schneklud);" Collection Jerome Stonborough and Margarethe Wittgenstein Stonborough, Vienna, Austria; Marcel Norero Sale, Paris, 1927; Collection Marcel Norero, Paris; Galerie Druet, Paris; Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1914; La Peau de l'Ours, Paris.
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(catalogue listing, p. 166, cites no. 47 as 'Portrait of a Musician ('U Paupa Schneklud'), 1890, canvas, Private Collection, Photo Vizzavona.
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Sotheby's, 'Impressionist and Modern Art,' Part I, Sale LN8721, December 7, 1998, Fig. 2, p. 59.
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