Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from the Ambroise Vollard Collection
Paul Cézanne
Sous-bois
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Ambroise Vollard Collection
Paul Cézanne
1839 - 1906
Sous-bois
watercolor and pencil on paper
19 ⅛ by 12 ⅝ in. 48.6 by 32 cm.
Executed circa 1882-84.
Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired from the estate of the above)
Brought to Germany by a soldier of the Wehrmacht (at the end of World War II)
Bishop Heinrich Solbach, Archdiocese of Magdebourg (deposited by the above)
National Gallery of East Germany, East Berlin (deposited by the above in 1972)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris (recovered by the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Minister of Culture in July 1994 following the 63rd French-German Summit)
Restituted by the French authorities to the heirs of Ambroise Vollard on 10 February 2023
Eric Conan, Jean-Marc Gonin and Yves Stravides, "Le Secret des musées de Berlin," L'Express, 20 December 1990, p. 63, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d'Orsay, De l'impressionnisme à l'Art nouveau: Acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1990-1996, 1996, p. 296 (dated 1892)
Claude Lorentz, La France et les restitutions allemandes au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale (1943-1954), Paris, 1998, p. 297, illustrated
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, online, 2023, no. FWN 1120, illustrated in color, https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1293 (accessed on 2 April 2023)
Berlin, Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin, Bilder aus Frankreich: 28 Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aufbewahrt in der Nationalgalerie, 1991, pp. 44-45, illustrated in color (titled Bäume and dated after 1885)
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Oeuvres restituées par l'Allemagne, 1994, p. 13, reproduced in the Petit Journal
Paris, Grand Palais, Présentation des oeuvres récupérées après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et confiées à la garde des musées nationaux, 1997, p. 163, illustrated
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade, Les Chemins du cubisme, 1999, pp. 52-53, illustrated in color
Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, New-York et l'art moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle (1905-1930), 2004-05, no. 38, n.p., illustrated in color
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Aquarelle: atelier et plein air, 2008, no. 45, illustrated in color (dated circa 1895-1900)
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Pierre Boulez. Oeuvre: Fragment. Dessins, partitions et textes choisis, 2008-09, no. 32, p. 103, illustrated in color
Evian, Palais Lumière d'Evian and Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les Arpenteurs de rêves: dessins du musée d'Orsay, 2022-23, n.n., p. 89, illustrated in color