Etude de baigneuses (recto); Etude de table, boîte et jardinière (recto)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Etude de baigneuses (recto); Etude de table, boîte et jardinière (recto)
pencil on paper (recto); pencil and watercolour on paper (verso)
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1879-1882 (recto); drawn circa 1879-1882 (verso)

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, and thence by descent to the Barut family, Chembéry; sale, Christie's London, 26 June 2003, lot 330.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1286, p. 307 (recto and verso).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 519, p. 154 (recto); no. 537, p. 157 (verso) (illustrated vol. II nos. 519 and 537).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The walking figure in the centre of the recto study is related to the male bather in Rewald, no. 386 (executed in 1877-1878) and, with the addition of longer hair, to female bathers in other paintings executed around the same time (R., nos. 359-366). The figure at right is related to the bather in the upper centre of the compositions in R., nos. 362-366. On the verso, the artist has drawn an oval table covered with a cloth, and below it an ornamental flowerpot that also appears in a watercolour that Rewald dated circa 1885 (Rewald, Watercolours, no. 229).

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