Ambroise Vollard (recto); Etudes: Bethsabée et Baigneur debout (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Ambroise Vollard (recto); Etudes: Bethsabée et Baigneur debout (verso)
pencil and traces of watercolour on paper (recto); watercolour and pencil on paper (verso)
8¼ x 11 1/8in. (27.2 x 21.1cm.)
Drawn 1896-1899 (recto); drawn 1894-1898 (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, p. 312 (recto titled 'Homme barbu' and verso).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1193, p. 268 (recto); no. 1102, p. 252 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 1193 and 1102).

Exhibited

Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne. Das zeichnerische Werk, Oct.-Dec. 1978, no. 70 (illustrated p. 166).

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page XLII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page XLI.

Whilst Venturi (op. cit.) opted for a vaguer title of 'homme barbu', Chappuis (op. cit., 1973) identified the man in profile as Ambroise Vollard.

The first sketch from the right on the verso is a study for Bethsabée (see note for lot 332).

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