Vue du Panthéon (recto); Etudes avec personnages et colonnade (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Vue du Panthéon (recto); Etudes avec personnages et colonnade (verso)
pencil on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
9 x 5in. (23 x 12.5cm.)
Drawn circa 1880-1882 (recto); drawn circa 1871-1874 (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

A. Chappuis, Dessins de Cézanne, Lausanne, 1957, no. 15 (recto illustrated).
T. Reff, 'Cézanne's Drawings 1875-85', in Burlington Magazine, May 1959, p. 175 (recto illustrated fig. 27).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 807, p. 204 (recto); no. 267, p. 107 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 807 and 204).

Exhibited

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Cézanne, March-May 1974, no. 104. This exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka, Cultural Center, June-August 1974.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne. Das Zeichnerische Werk, Oct.-Dec. 1978, no. 80 (illustrated p. 177).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The verso of this work is page III from the sketchbook CP II.

The recto depicts a view of the Panthéon in Paris. According to Reff (op. cit.), this was the view from the window of the artist's studio, 32 rue de l'Ouest, in the VI arrondissement.

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