Dans la carrière de Bibémus

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Dans la carrière de Bibémus
pencil on paper
8¼ x 10¾in. (21 x 27.2cm.)
Drawn circa 1900

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above 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.
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1184, p. 267 (illustrated vol. II, no. 1184).

Exhibited

Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne. Das zeichnerische Werk, Oct.-Dec. 1978, no. 109 (illustrated p. 204).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page XI from the sketchbook CP IV.

This study focusses on the deep gully separating a pine tree from a square-cut rock in the Bibémus quarry near Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne found inspiration for some of his most impressive compositions. The same motif can be found in R 836 and 838.

More from Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper

View All