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Paul Cézanne

Deux hommes et une danseuse (recto) & Étude pour La tentation de saint Antoine et d'un brigand tenant un tremblon (verso): A Double-Sided Drawing

Lot Closed

October 1, 05:12 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from Distinguished Private Collectors

Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906


Deux hommes et une danseuse (recto) & Étude pour La tentation de saint Antoine et d'un brigand tenant un tremblon (verso): A Double-Sided Drawing

graphite and pen and ink and ink wash on paper

4 ⅞ by 8 ⅛ in.

12.3 by 20.6 cm.

Recto: Executed in 1861-65.

Verso: Executed in pen in 1857-58; pencil in 1869-72.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Juliette Saylor at Juliette.Saylor@sothebys.com

Paul Cézanne, Paris (the son of the artist)

Jean-Pierre Cézanne, Paris (by descent from the above)

Private Collection, Paris

Micheal Zagayski, Palm Beach

Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York, 13 December 1967, lot 4 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Samuel J. & Ethel LeFrak, New York (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Deux hommes et une danseuse, 1861-65 (FWN 3004-24a)." The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1738 (accessed September 24, 2024).

Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Etude pour La tentation de saint Antoine et d'un brigand tenant un tremblon, ink 1857-58; graphite 1869-72 (FWN 3004-24b)." The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2106 (accessed September 24, 2024).

Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973, nos. 90 (recto), illustrated (titled Two men, and woman dancer) & 446 (verso), illustrated (titled Studies for The Temptation of St. Anthony, Brigand holding a blunderbuss)