Vue du Panthéon (recto); étude de personnages avec colonnade (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Vue du Panthéon (recto); étude de personnages avec colonnade (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
9 x 4 7/8 in. (22.8 x 12.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1880-1882

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; his sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 2003, lot 333.
Acquired at the above sale by 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, October - December 1978, no. 80 (illustrated p. 177).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The verso of this work is page III from the sketchbook CP II, once owned by Adrien Chappuis.

The recto depicts a view of the Panthéon in Paris. According to Professor 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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