Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS COLLECTOR

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Baigneur debout

pencil on van Gelder paper
17¾ x 9in. (45.1 x 22.9cm.)

Drawn circa 1885-88

Provenance

M. Silberberg, Breslau
Arthur Pfannstiel, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve
Rogers, Paris (confiscated in 1943)

Literature

J. Rewald (ed.), Paul Cézanne Letters, London, 1941 (illustrated pl. 13)
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, a catalogue raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 949 (illustrated vol. II)

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, Cézanne Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May-June 1927, no. 56
Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, Cézanne, 1929, no. 35
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Cézanne, May-Oct. 1936, no. 161
San Francisco, Museum of Art, Cézanne, Sept.-Oct. 1937, no. 67
London, Wildenstein, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 86

Lot Essay

This drawing relates to the standing figure at the right hand side of two Baigneurs oils dated 1892-94. The first (Venturi 580) is housed in the Museé d'Orsay, Paris, and the second (Venturi 581) in The Saint Louis Art Museum. Adrien Chappuis suggests that a sketch by Luca Signorelli may well have served as a source for the present drawing (for related works see also C. 438 and 998).

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