Lot Essay
Both studies show a sleeping child, and Chappuis identified the subject in the sketch at right as the artist's son Paul (op. cit.).
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Etudes de têtes: Paul Cézanne fils et un enfant
Details
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Etudes de têtes: Paul Cézanne fils et un enfant
pencil on blue paper
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1886-1887
Etudes de têtes: Paul Cézanne fils et un enfant
pencil on blue paper
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1886-1887
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.
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. 1290, p. 307 (illustrated vol. II pl. 351).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 862, p. 211 (illustrated vol. II no. 862).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 862, p. 211 (illustrated vol. II no. 862).
Special notice
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