Le hêtre

Details

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Le hêtre
watercolor and pencil on paper
11 1/8 x 11 1/8in. (28.2 x 28.2cm.)
Painted 1883-1885

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Lucien Guiraud, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 14, 1956, lot 17 (illustrated, pl. IV)
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris (acquired by Boris Leavitt)

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art--son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 995 (illustrated, pl. 298)
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne, The Watercolors, Boston, 1983, no. 165 (illustrated)

Exhibited

New York, Montross Gallery, Cézanne, Jan., 1916, no. 32

Lot Essay

This watercolor, as illustrated in the Vollard archives and in the literature by Venturi (op. cit.) and Rewald (op. cit.), shows the sheet extended to the left side with an unrelated pencil sketch. Rewald assumed that the sheet was cut down before 1956, but the left side and the bottom edge have actually been folded under. If the sheet were unfolded it would measure overall 12½ x 18in. (31.8 x 45.8cm.).