Profil du Roc de Chère, Lac d'Annecy (recto); Homme vu de dos (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Profil du Roc de Chère, Lac d'Annecy (recto); Homme vu de dos (verso)
watercolour and pencil on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
8¼ x 10¾in. (21 x 27.4cm.)
Executed in 1896 (recto); drawn circa 1886-1889 (verso)

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1933.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1316, p. 312 (verso).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1973, vol. I, no. 691, p. 187 (verso illustrated vol. II, no. 691).
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, no. 476, p. 203 (recto illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, July 1936, no. 11.
possibly: New York, Valentine Gallery, Cézanne Watercolors, Renoir Drawings, January 1937, no. 25.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The recto of sheet was page XLIII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page XLIV.

Whilst Rewald (op. cit.) dates this watercolour to 1896, Venturi, in his notes for the revised edition of his 1936 catalogue (which was never published) proposed a later date of 1900.

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