Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Sous-bois
watercolour and pencil on paper
8 1/8 x 5 in. (20.7 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1882-1884
Provenance
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York.
L. McKim, New York.
Charlotte B. McKim, Palm Beach; estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 422.
Richard L. Feigen, New York.
Acquired in the 1980s-1990s and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne, The Watercolours, A Catalogue raisonné, London, 1983, no. 168, p. 126 (illustrated n.p.).
Sale Room Notice
Please note the following amended provenance for this work:
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York.
L. McKim, New York.
Charlotte B. McKim, Palm Beach; estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 422.
Richard L. Feigen, New York.
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen.
Acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Lot Essay
Whilst Rewald (op. cit.) dates this watercolour to 1882-1884, Venturi, in his notes for the unpublished revised edition of his 1936 catalogue raisonné proposed 1895-1900 as a date of execution.