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    • Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
    Lot 1080

    Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

    Etudes d'après Madame Cézanne (recto and verso)

    Price realised

    USD 87,500

    Estimate

    USD 70,000 - USD 100,000

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    Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
    Etudes d'après Madame Cézanne (recto and verso)
    pencil on paper
    12 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (32.6 x 25.2 cm.)
    Drawn circa 1879-1880 (recto); Drawn circa 1878-1880 (verso)

    Provenance

    Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
    Kenneth Clark, London (by 1936).
    Sidney Nolan, London.
    Acquired by the present owner, 1994.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    L. Venturi, Cézanne, Son art–son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, p. 325, no. 1477 (recto illustrated, vol. II, pl. 378).
    W. Andersen, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, Cambridge, 1970, p. 90, no. 55 (recto) and p. 93, no. 62 (verso) (illustrated, vol. II; recto dated circa 1881-1882; verso dated circa 1882-1883).
    A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, pp. 190 and 193, no. 711 (verso) and no. 728 (recto) (illustrated).


    Exhibited

    Kunsthalle Basel, Paul Cézanne, August-October 1936, no. 159.
    Vienna, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Paul Cézanne, April-June 1961, p. 37, no. 106.
    Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Paul Cézanne, 1961, no. 43.
    Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery and London, Hayward Gallery, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September-December 1973, no. 33 (illustrated).


    Lot Essay

    This drawing will be included in the online catalogue raisonné of Paul Cézanne's works on paper, under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, David Nash and Jayne Warman.

    Throughout his life Cézanne executed many portraits, primarily of his family members and close friends. Most frequently portrayed was Hortense Fiquet, the mother of his child and the woman he would marry in 1886. Cézanne met Hortense, a tall nineteen-year-old artist's model with brown hair and large black eyes, in 1869 in Paris. Over the course of his career, he painted twenty-seven oil portraits of his wife in addition to numerous works on paper. All the portraits of Hortense depict her motionless and quiet; the present sheet shows a group of intimate drawings of her, each one with her head bowed down slightly as if leaning over a book or needlepoint.

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