Lot 120
  • 120

Paul Cézanne

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Paul Cézanne
  • CHEVAUX DE TRAIT (D'APRÈS GÉRICAULT)
  • mine de plomb sur papier
  • 17,5 x 18,2 cm, 6 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.

Provenance

Collection particulière, Suisse
W. Raeber, Bâle
Bertel Hintze, Helsinki
Vente : Christie's, Londres, 1er décembre 1981, lot 303
Acquis lors de la vente précédente par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Helsinki, Musée de l'Athénée, Exposition d'art contemporain dans les collections finlandaises, 1954, no. 22

Literature

Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1973,  no. 979, illustré vol. I & II

Condition

Executed on laid paper, laid down on Japan paper. Apart from a 2 mm. tear in the centre of the lower edge, this work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

pencil on paper. Drawn circa 1887-90, after the drawing by Géricault in the Cabinet des Dessins of the Louvre.


Fig. 1, Théodore Géricault, Chevaux de trait (détail), mine de plomb sur papier, Cabinet des Dessins of the Musée du Louvre.