Paintings and Judaica from the Estate of Prof. Victor Deutsch - Part II
Lot 20218:
Description
Partially signed in the plate and dated 73 (lower right)
Technique
Etching
Date Created
1873
Dimensions
13 x 10.7 cm
Provenance
Estate of Prof. Victor Deutsch
Literature
Cherpin 4
Condition
Wide margins, good condition besides a few spots of foxing.
Biography
Paul Cezanne, born in Aix-en-Provence France, 1939. Education: Entered the College Bourbon, 1852. Studied painting and drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Aix, 1856. Entered law school at the University of Aix, 1958. Exhibitions: “Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours”, Tate, Britain, 1946. “Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872”, National Gallery of Art, US, 1989. “Cézanne in Provence” National Gallery of Art, US, 2006. “Cézanne a Firenze”, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2006. “The Courtauld Cezannes”, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008. was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne “is the father of us all” cannot be easily dismissed. Cézanne’s work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. The paintings convey Cézanne’s intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.
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