Lot 392
  • 392

Paul Cézanne

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Cézanne
  • Feuilles et fleurs (recto) & Étude après une sculpture antique: Faune et enfant (verso) (A Double-Sided Drawing)
  • Watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 7 5/8 by 4 5/8 in.
  • 19.3 by 11.7 cm

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (by descent from the artist)
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Kenneth Clark, London 
Robert von Hirsch, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, Son art, son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, p. 349 (titled Études)
Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 304 (verso); illustrated vol. II, n.p. 
John Rewald, Paul Cézanne, The Watercolors, Boston, 1983, no. 545, recto illustrated n.p.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. There is a matte stain around the perimeter of the sheet which is slightly wider at the top and bottom edges. There is a 1 centimeter tear at the bottom of the right edge and several repaired losses along the upper edge, particularly at the corners. A few restorations to the bottom edges are visible on the verso. The recto is slightly time darkened, but is in overall good condition.
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