Mars (L'homme de Borghese)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Mars (L'homme de Borghese)
pencil on paper
12¼ x 9 in. (31 x 23 cm.)
drawn in 1879-1882

Provenance

Private collection, Monte-Carlo; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 102.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.

Literature

G. Berthold, Cézanne und die Alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, p. 70, no. 7 (illustrated).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, London, 1973, vol. I, p. 165, no. 586 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 586).
A. Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und
Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski,
Berlin, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 398 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The present drawing represents the statue Ares, also known as The Borghese Mars (fig. 1). In the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, this sculpture is an antique replica of a statue dating from the fifth century B.C. attributed to Alamenes.

(fig. 1) Arès Borghèse, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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