LOT DETAILS
Materials:
pencil on paper (recto and verso), The three beautiful Cézanne drawings presented in this sale have been selected by gallerist, whose drawings he started buying frantically
Size Notes:
5 3?8 x 5 1?4 in. (13.7 x 13.3 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September - December, 1989, no. 101a, p. 138 (recto illustrated). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Cézanne, September 1995 - January 1996, no. 63, p. 202 (recto illustrated p. 203; dated '1885-87'); this exhibition later travelled to London, The Tate Gallery, February - April 1996, and to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May - August 1996. Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Cézanne at the Whitworth, August 2019 - March 2020, no. 9, p. 56 (recto illustrated on the cover & p. 57). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cézanne Drawing, June - September 2021, pp. 94 & 208 (recto illustrated pl. 101).
Literature:
A. Vollard, Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1914, p. 174 (recto illustrated). L. Venturi, Cézanne: Son Art, Son Œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1490, p. 327 (recto illustrated, vol. II, pl. 381; titled 'Baigneuses' and dated '1883-87'). A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, London, 1973, no. 517, p. 154 (recto illustrated vol. II, fig. 517; titled 'Five Women Bathers'). V. Bozal, 'Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le lenguaje' in La Balsa de la Medusa, no. 36, 1995 (recto illustrated on the cover; dated '1885-87'). G. Ballas, Cézanne, baigneuses et baigneurs, thème et composition, Paris, 2002, no. 51, p. 280 (recto illustrated). W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman & D. Nash, The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.cezannecatalogue.com), nos. FWN 2029 & FWN 2025 (recto & verso illustrated). Accessed in January 2022. F. Ruppen, 'Constructing Drawings: On Cézanne's Use of Artists' Materials' in exh. cat., Cézanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2021, no. 2, p. 459 (illustrated p. 72).
Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris. Richard Davis, Minneapolis. New Gallery [Eugene V. Thaw], New York. Drue Heinz, United States, by whom acquired from the above in February 1960, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 14 May 2019, lot 129. Acquired at the above sale.