La tranchée (recto); Trois esquisses (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
La tranchée (recto); Trois esquisses (verso)
pencil, pen and black ink on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
6¾ x 9½ in. (17.2 x 24.1 cm.)
Drawn circa 1870

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Acquired in the 1960s and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

A. Vollard, Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1914, p. 168 (illustrated pl. 55).
L. Venturi, Cézanne, son Art, son Oeuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. I, no. 1205 (illustrated vol. II, pl. 339).
F. Novotny, Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive, Vienna, 1938, no. 63, p. 200.
B. Dorival, Cézanne, Paris, 1948 (illustrated p. 94).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 120 (verso catalogued as 'blank page'; illustrated vol. II, no. 120).
S. Geist, Interpreting Cézanne, Cambridge, MA & London, p. 69 (illustrated p. 70).

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Lot Essay

La tranchée is a preliminary study for the oil La tranchée avec la Montagne Sainte-Victoire (R 156) at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. Adrien Chappuis had words of praise for this drawing: 'The accents in ink are audacious. In this rather harsh sketch there is a kind of grandeur which surpasses contemporary conceptions' (op. cit.).

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