ID 842720
Lot 41 | PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
Maisons au Chou, à Pontoise
oil on canvas
32 x 25 5/8 in. (81.2 x 65.2 cm.)
Painted in Pontoise circa 1881
Provenance
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cagnes (acquired from the artist).
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Maurice Renou, Paris.
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris.
Ralph H. Booth, Detroit (acquired from the above, June 1926, then by descent); sale, Christie’s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 108.
Private collection, United States (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 7 November 2007, lot 33.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
F. Fosca, "Trente ans d’art indépendant, 1884-1914" in Art et décoration, vol. 49, April 1926, p. 99 (illustrated).
P. Courthion, Panorama de la peinture française contemporaine, Paris, 1927 (illustrated, pl. 33; titled Paysage).
L. Venturi, Cezanne—Son art, son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. I, no. 308 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 83; titled Paysage and dated 1879-1882).
R. Goldwater, "Cezanne in America: The Master’s Paintings in American Collections” in The Art New Annual, vol. 36, no. 26, 26 March 1938, p. 152 (illustrated; titled Landscape and dated 1879-1882).
J. Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, vol. I, p. 328, no. 485 (illustrated, vol. II, p. 156; titled Maisons dans la verdure).
W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash, The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.cezannecatalogue.com), no. FWN 167 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Trente ans d’art indépendant, 1884-1914, February-March 1926, p. 187, no. 2875 bis (titled Paysage).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, October 1927, no. 70 (with incorrect dimensions).
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings from Memling, Holbein and Titian to Renoir and Picasso, February-March 1928, no. 26 (illustrated; titled Landscape).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Painting, May-June 1931, p. 13, no. 11.
| Artist: | Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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