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Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Paul Cézanne

L'Assiette bleue

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November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906


L'Assiette bleue

oil on canvas

11 by 8 ⅞ in. 28 by 22.7 cm.

Executed in 1879-80.

Octave Mirbeau, Paris

Alice Regnault, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 4 November 1920)

Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and London (acquired from the above on 8 March 1924 and until at least 1938)

Peter Pitt-Millward, Paço da Glória and London (likely acquired by descent from the above by 1954) 

Sotheby’s, London, 6 May 1959, lot 74 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection, London

Sir Edward and Lady Hulton, London (acquired by 1964 and until at least 1968) 

Private Collection, Switzerland

Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd., London

Fujii Gallery, Tokyo

Acquired in 1988 by the present owner

"Le courrier de la presse: Auguste Renoir — Paul Cézanne," Le Bulletin de la vie artistique, vol. I, no. 26, Paris, 15 December 1920, p. 747, illustrated (titled Nature morte)

Émile Bernard, Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne, la méthode de Cézanne, Paris, 1925, n.p., illustrated

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 353, p. 142; vol. II, pl. 353, illustrated (dated 1879-82)

Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’œuvre de l’art français, Paris, 1937, p. 126

René Gimpel, Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux, Paris, 1963, p. 274

Sandra Orenti, L’opera completa di Cézanne, Milan, 1970, no. 462, p. 107, illustrated (titled Piatto con fico e pesche and dated 1879-82)

Félix Fénéon, Oeuvres plus que complètes, vol. I, Geneva, 1970, p. 313

Sandra Orenti, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Cézanne, Paris, 1975, no. 462, pp. 107-08, illustrated

Sophie Monneret, L’impressionnisme et son époque, dictionnaire international illustré, vol. II, Paris, 1979, p. 53

Octave Mirbeau, Combats esthétiques, Paris, 1993, p. 537

John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New York, 1996, no. 433, pp. 289-90; vol. II, pl. 433, p. 137, illustrated

Pavel Machotka, Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, vol. I, Marseille, 2008, no. 196, illustrated; vol. II, pp. 131-32, illustrated

Fred Leeman, Émile Bernard, Paris, 2013, fig. 27, pp. 96, 98 and 103, illustrated in color

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. I, Paris, 2020, no. 33, pp. 266-67, illustrated (titled Nature morte) and p. 109-110 (in illustration of Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Cézanne, 1920)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cézanne Drawing, 2021, p. 199, pl. 245, illustrated in color

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, "L’Assiette bleue, 1879-80 (FWN 775), "The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=425 (accessed on 2 August 2023)

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Cézanne, 1920, no. 20, illustrated (titled Nature morte)

Lyon, Galerie Saint-Pierre, 1923, n.n.

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, 1936, no. 61, p. 92 (dated circa 1882)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, 1938, no. 22 (titled Nature morte à l'assiette bleue; fragment

Oslo, Kunstnerforbundet, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, 1954, no. 12

Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Sammlung Sir Edward und Lady Hulton, 1964-65, no. 3, illustrated (dated 1879-82)

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen and Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlung Hulton, 1964-65 and 1967-68, no. 3, illustrated

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Important XIX & XX Century Works of Art, 1981, no. 5, pp. 12-13, illustrated in color (dated 1879-82)

Gunma, Museum of Modern Art, Impressionist Exhibition, 1994

Yokohama Museum of Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Cézanne and Japan, 1999-2000, no. 84, p. 128, illustrated in color (dated circa 1879-82)

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, 2002, pp. 130-31, illustrated in color

Yokohama Museum of Art and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, 2008-09, no. 118, pp. 158-59, illustrated in color (dated circa 1879-82)