WITHDRAWN - From the private collection of Paul Gaugin Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796 - 1875 ‘Sur la Plage’ and ‘Bouvillon’ An important pair of small oil on card works, mounted to paper. Both inscribed in pencil on the mount: “Corot”  * 5.5cm x 8.5cm ( 2.16 ins x 3.34 ins ) Framed. (2) Provenance: Private Collection of Paul Gaugin 1843-1903. By family repute both works believed to have been acquired by Gaugin from the artist. By descent to his youngest son, Paul Rollon “Pola” Gaugin 1883-1961 Acquired by Harald Holst Halvorsen, Norway [puchased 1932/33], and by descent to his daughter, Anne Birgitte Bjerke. Private Collection, Norway. Footnotes When Paul Gaugin’s mother died in 1867, his legal guardianship fell to family friend and businessman Gustave Arosa, who, upon Gauguin’s release from the merchant marine, secured a position for him as a stockbroker. He also introduced Gaugin to his Danish wife Mette Sophie Gad  [ 1850 -1920 ] and they married in 1873. Pola Gaugin was their fifth child. Pola would later forge his career as an artist, critic, collector, and biographer [ see “My Father Paul Gaugin”, published 1937 ].  As a successful stockbroker, Gustave Arosa built a private collection of paintings that fuelled the aspirations of Paul Gaugin and included nine works by Camille Corot** [ see - ’The Letter’ - Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ] along with works by Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, and by a fellow stockbroker, Émile Schuffenecker, with whom Gaugin started his painting career. When Gaugin moved from Paris to Copenhagen in 1884 with Mette and their children he took with him his own art collection which included works by Renoir, Pissarro, and Monet. These works remained in Copenhagen after Gaugin left the family in 1885 to pursue his career as an artist. Harald Holst Halvorsen founded his Oslo Art Gallery in 1917, and is regarded as one of the most important Norwegian Fine Art Art Dealers of the 20th Century. A close friend of Edvard Munch, he acted as his agent on many occasions, including securing works by Munch condemned in Berlin as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazi’s. In the early 1930’s Harald Holst Halvorsen acquired “Paysage Aux Trunc Bleus” by Paul Gaugin, directly from from his son Pola Gaugin [Sold Christies, London, June 2012]. It is believed these two works were acquired at the same time. The influence of Corot was succinctly described by Claude Monet in 1897;  “There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing.” * It is thought both works are inscribed by Paul Gaugin * * Source; L’Oeuvre de Corot, Albert Robaut, published 1905. Vols 1-4. WITHDRAWN.