Etudes d'une baigneuse s'essuyant (recto); Etudes: Une cruche et tête de Madame Cézanne (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Etudes d'une baigneuse s'essuyant (recto); Etudes: Une cruche et tête de Madame Cézanne (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1883-1886 (recto); drawn circa 1879-1882 (verso)

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the estate of the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1934, and thence by descent to the Barut family, Chembéry; sale, Christie's London, 26 June 2003, lot 330.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1295 (recto and verso) (recto illustrated vol. II pl. 352). A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 520, p. 154 (recto); no. 952, p. 223 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 520 and 952).
M.L. Krumrine (ed.), exh. cat., Paul Cézanne. The Bathers, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 1989 (recto illustrated p. 56).
Exh. cat. Cézanne, les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1989 (recto illustrated p. 17).

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Lot Essay

The bather that appears in the recto studies is familiar from other pages in the carnet. The study of the water-jug on the verso is a different view of the one seen in another drawing in this group. Chappuis did not indicate the identity of the woman whose head appears below; however, it seems likely that she is Madame Cézanne (cf. Rewald, no. 387).

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