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PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)

Lot 427
04.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 427 | PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)
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PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)

Portrait de Monsieur Chocquet (recto); Etude d'homme (verso)

bears initials (recto, lower right)

pencil on paper (recto and verso)

3 1⁄2 x 3 1⁄4 in. (9 x 8.2 cm.)

Drawn in 1877-1881 (recto)



The three beautiful Cézanne drawings presented in this sale have been selected by gallerist, collector, author and publisher Karsten Schubert, just months before his untimely death in 2019.

A great connoisseur of Cézanne’s work, Schubert moved to England from Berlin after being lured by a friend to travel there, and fell immediately in love with London. There, he quickly became widely respected as a dealer in contemporary art, but his taste as a collector was much more conservative. He played an unparalleled part in promoting the group that would come to be known as the Young British Artists, and became a private artists' representative working with a select number of them, most famously Bridget Riley. In fact, it was through Riley, who had been deeply invested herself in Cézanne’s work form an early age, that Karsten Schubert came to a deeper understanding of the work of the French artist, whose drawings he started buying frantically, and continued to do so until the very end of his tragically interrupted life.

‘Cézanne always posed a problem for me.’ He would say in a conversation with the curator and art historian Yuval Etgar ‘That’s why I never managed to let go of him. On the contrary, the obsession seems only to be getting worse with time.’ […] ‘I bought my first Cézanne […] around 1983 or 1984. I did it out of sheer curiosity, not connoisseurship.’ (Exh. Cat., Ce´zanne at the Whitworth, the Karsten Schubert bequest, Manchester, 2019, p. 16).

Almost forty years later, the result of this passionate acquisition process – Karsten Schubert’s wonderful collection of Cézanne’s drawings and prints – has been generously bequeathed to the Whitworth Art Gallery through a process started in 2017 and completed just after his death. This important act of generosity means that the Whitworth now holds the best collection of Ce´zanne works on paper in the United Kingdom, including a version of every print produced by the artist.







Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.

(probably) Lucas Lichtenthan, Basel.

Private collection, Basel, by 1969.

Anonymous sale, Beurret & Bailly Auktionen, Basel, 15 June 2013, lot 192.

Galerie B. Weil, London.

Acquired from the above in 2019.





Literature

P. Cézanne, Correspondance, Paris, 1937 in J. Rewald (ed.), Paris, 1978 (illustrated fig. 25).

W.V. Andersen, 'Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet', in The Art Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 2, June 1967, no. 8, pp. 137-138 (illustrated p. 137).

J. Rewald, 'Chocquet et Cézanne', in Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, July - August 1969, p. 68 (illustrated fig. 27; dated '1879–1882').

W.V. Andersen, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, Cambridge & London, 1970, no. 211, p. 196 (illustrated).

A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, no. 395 (illustrated vol. II).

J. Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New York, 1996, p. 195 (illustrated; dated '1879-82').

Drawings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.cezannecatalogue.com), no. FWN 1727 (illustrated). Accessed in January 2022.





Exhibited

Basel, Kunsthalle, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June - August 1935, no. 174, p. 28 (dated '1877').

Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne, August - October 1936, no. 112, p. 19 (titled 'Bildnis des Dr. Choquet' and dated '1875').

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September - October 1937, no. 55 (dated 'circa 1877').

Winterthur, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten. Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February - June 2015, no. 21, p. 164 (illustrated p. 165).

Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Cézanne at the Whitworth, August 2019 - March 2020, no. 10 (illustrated, titled 'Victor Chocquet').
Artist:Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906)
Applied technique:Pencil
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Impressionism
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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