Portrait of Madeleine Bernard

Portrait of Madeleine Bernard is an August 1888 oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, now in the Museum of Grenoble, which bought it for 20,000 francs in 1923. It shows Madeleine Bernard, sister of the French painter Émile Bernard and is painted on the other side of the June 1888 The White River by the same artist. He seemingly used both sides of the same canvas for practical reasons, due to lack of funds or because he could not find canvases in Pont-Aven at that time.
The joint work was initially acquired by a collector from Montpellier, Maurice Fabre, who then sold it to Eugène Druet. It then passed to Alexandre Bernheim and was bought by its present owner in 1923 for 20,000 francs or - as that museum's curator Andry-Farcy put it - "10,000 francs per Gauguin!". It was stolen in June 1978 whilst being brought back from an exhibition in Marseille, but was recovered in a poor state of conservation the following year. It has now been re-framed and restored.