Paysage (Le mur) (recto); D'après L'ecorché (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-906)
Paysage (Le mur) (recto); D'après L'ecorché (verso)
watercolour on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
8¼ x 10¾in. (21 x 27.4cm.)
Executed circa 1890 (recto); drawn circa 1893-1896 (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. 1317, p. 313 (recto and verso) (recto listed as 'Page LXIII. Touches d'aquarelle pour une esquisse de maisons'; verso illustrated vol. II, pl. 355).
A. Chappuis, Dessins de Cézanne, Lausanne, 1957, no. 49 (verso illustrated).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 72 (verso illustrated).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1087, p. 249 (verso illustrated vol. II, no. 1087).
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, no. 277, p. 150 (recto illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, July 1936, no. 7.
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Cézanne, tableaux, aquarelles, dessins, July-Aug. 1961, no. 58.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The recto of sheet was page LXIII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page LXIV.

The verso is a sketch from the artist's plaster cast of the Écorché, the subject of Cézanne's numerous studies and paintings. A tradition dating back to Renaissance times, artists worked from casts of the Écorché - the human body in musculature form, to better understand the movement of the body. No longer intact, the cast is preserved at Cézanne's Lauves studio in Aix-en-Provence.

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