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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Portrait de Mme Cézanne, profil gauche (recto); D'après Michel-Ange: Esclave enchaîné (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
7¾ x 4¾in. (19.5 x 12cm.)
Drawn circa 1884-1887 (recto); drawn circa 1883-1886 (verso)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the estate of the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1934.
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
J. Rewald, L'Amour de l'Art, October 1935, p. 288, note 14 (verso).
L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1279, p. 305 (verso); no. 1280 (recto illustrated vol. II, pl. 349).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 59 (verso illustrated pl. 115).
W. Andersen, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, Cambridge and London, 1970, no. 74, p. 40 (recto illustrated p. 99; dated 'mid-1890s').
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 665, p. 180 (recto); no. 590, p. 167 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 665 and 590).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, May-Oct. 1936, no. 162 (incorrectly catalogued as 'Venturi no. 1280').
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Paul Cézanne, Sept.-Oct. 1937, no. 60.
London, Wildenstein Galleries, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 84.
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Cézanne, tableaux, aquarelles, dessins, July-August 1961, no. 59.
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Cézanne, March-May 1974, no. 106. This exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka, Cultural Center, June-August 1974.
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