Etude pour la montagne Sainte-Victoire (recto); Etude d'homme allongé lisant (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Etude pour la montagne Sainte-Victoire (recto); Etude d'homme allongé lisant (verso)
pencil on paper (recto); pencil and watercolour on paper (verso)
8¼ x 10½in. (21 x 27.4cm.)
Drawn circa 1892-1896 (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, pp. 312-313 (recto and verso).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1169, p. 265 (recto); no. 690, p. 187 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 1169 and 690).

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet sheet was page LIX from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page LX.

Chappuis (op. cit.) related the recto to the oil La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vu des Infernets, circa 1895 (R 762; Mr and Mrs Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1897 (R 796; Private Collection).

The verso is a sketch of a figure lying down, reading: the right elbow of the man touches the ground, the face is hidden by a newspaper (the upper edge of which is indicated) and the legs by a blanket. Chappuis (op. cit.) deconstructed the complexity of the composition, which works as a unity, in opposition to Venturi (op. cit.), who catalogued it as 'esquisse très vague d'un paysan'.

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