Bords de rivière (recto); Étude de baigneur (verso);

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Bords de rivière (recto); Étude de baigneur (verso);
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
8¼ x 10¾in. (21 x 27.2cm.)
Drawn circa 1880-1883 (recto); drawn circa 1900 (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. 1315, p. 312 (recto and verso).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1973, vol. I, pp. 202-203, no. 795 (recto); p. 274, no. 1219 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 795 and 1219).

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page VII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page VIII.

The verso is a quick rendition of a playful moment between two bathers, the main figure on the left trying to push back into the water the man still in the river, of whom we only see the head.

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