Paysage aux arbres (recto); Etudes de personnages féminins (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Paysage aux arbres (recto); Etudes de personnages féminins (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
8¼ x 10¼in. (21 x 26cm.)
Drawn circa 1892-1895 (recto); drawn circa 1900 (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. 1315, p. 312 (recto).
A. Chappuis, Dessins de Cézanne, Lausanne, 1957 (detail of the recto illustrated on the cover).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1165, p. 264 (recto); no. 1220, p. 274 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 1165 and 1220).

Exhibited

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Cézanne, March-May 1974, no. 123. This exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka, Cultural Center, June-Aug. 1974.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne. Das zeichnerische Werk, Oct.-Dec. 1978, no. 104 (illustrated p. 198).

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page XIX from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page XX.

The study of a reclining woman to the left, on the verso, is a preparatory sketch for the reclining bather in Cézanne's celebrated 1906 oil painting, Les grandes baigneuses (R 857; W.P. Wilstach Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art).

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