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Property from a European Private Collection

Paul Cézanne

Bethsabée

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection

Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906


Bethsabée

oil on canvas

8⅜ by 7⅞ in.

21.3 by 20 cm.

Executed circa 1885-90.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Auguste Pellerin, Paris

M. and Mme. René Lecomte, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Private Collection

Christie's, New York, 8 November, 1999, lot 131 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2011, lot 176 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Hommage à Cézanne, 1954, no. 38, p. 14, pl. XVI, illustrated

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, 1989, no. 20, pp. 96, 312, illustrated in color and p. 98, pl. 63 (dated circa 1875-77)

Roger Fry, "Le développement de Cézanne," L'Amour de l'art, vol. VII, no. 12, December 1926, p. 416 (titled Petite ébauche)

Roger Fry, Cézanne: A Study of His Development, New York 1927, p. 86, pl. XXXIII, fig. 53, illustrated

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art - son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris 1936, no. 255, p. 122; vol. II, no. 255, pl. 68, illustrated (dated 1875-76)

Roger Fry, Cézanne: A Study of His Development, London 1952, p. 86, pl. XXXIII, fig. 53, illustrated (titled The Toilet)

Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Cézanne, New York 1976, no. 279, p. 98, illustrated

John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New York 1996, no. 592, p. 396; vol. II, no. 592, p. 197, illustrated

Jean Colrat, Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature, Paris 2013, p. 75, pl. 11, illustrated

Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 2020, no. 252, illustrated (titled Femme nue, paysage)

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash. "Bethsabée, 1885-90 (FWN 663)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=575 (accessed 13 October 2023).