Paysage avec pigeonnier (recto); Etude de tête: Louis-Auguste Cézanne (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Paysage avec pigeonnier (recto); Etude de tête: Louis-Auguste Cézanne (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
8 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1877-1880 (recto); drawn circa 1883-1886 (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, vo. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1290, p. 307 (recto).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 767, p. 199 (recto); no. 661, p. 180 (verso) (illustrated vol. II nos. 767 and 661).

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Lot Essay

The recto shows the pigeon tower (pigeonnier) on a farmstead known as Bellevue, which was within walking distance of Cézanne's estate at the Jas de Bouffan, and was acquired by his brother-in-law Maxime Conil in 1885. This aptly-named house overlooked the Arc River valley southwest of Aix, and featured in a painting done in 1882-1885 (Rewald, no. 377), as well as a group of paintings from the years 1889-1890 (Rewald, nos. 689-694).

Chappuis identified the subject of the verso as the artist's father, seen sleeping (op. cit.).

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