Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming online catalogue raisonné of Paul Cézanne's watercolours, under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, David Nash and Jayne Warman.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
A Woman Caught Unawares
Details
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
A Woman Caught Unawares
pencil on paper
4 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (11.8 x 17.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1865-1869
A Woman Caught Unawares
pencil on paper
4 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (11.8 x 17.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1865-1869
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 March 1959, lot 75.
Fritz M. Gross, London, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 March 1959, lot 75.
Fritz M. Gross, London, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 125A, p. 77 (illustrated vol. II, pl. 125A).
Exhibited
Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September - November 1973, no. 8; this exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery, November - December 1973
Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, Impressionist and Modern: The Art and Collection of Fritz Gross, May - June 1990, no. 6, p. 47 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, August - October 1990.
Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, Impressionist and Modern: The Art and Collection of Fritz Gross, May - June 1990, no. 6, p. 47 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, August - October 1990.
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