Femme debout (recto) Hommes à la lutte (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Femme debout (recto)
Hommes à la lutte (verso)
charcoal and pen and ink on brown paper (recto)
pencil on brown paper (verso)
9 1/8 x 5 7/8in. (23.4 x 15cm.)
Drawn circa 1866-69

Provenance

Private collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 25 November 1964, lot 118.

Literature

A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 216 (illustrated vol. II).

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Lot Essay

Underneath the woman portrayed in this drawing, there is a pen and ink sketch of an ancient warrier in a helmet seen in profile. According to A. Chappuis (op. cit.), this sketch is earlier than the drawing of the woman.

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