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92 PAUL CÉZANNE
Les Baigneurs (grande planche)
.
Color lithograph on cream laid paper, circa 1896-98. 425x525 mm; 16
3
/
4
x20
3
/
4
inches, full
margins. Druick’s third state (of 3). Edition of approximately 100. Printed by Auguste
Clot, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large,
important lithograph, with strong colors, and with particularly rich blue color throughout.
Cézanne based this iconic color lithograph on his earlier painting,
Baigneurs au repos
, 1875-
76, now in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.There is also a watercolor and gouache
maquette for the color lithograph at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Cherpin 7;
Druick I.
[20,000/30,000]
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PAUL CÉZANNE
Les Baigneurs (grande planche)
.
Lithograph on cream laid paper, 1896-98. 410x503 mm; 16x19
3
/
4
inches, full margins.
Edition of fewer than 100. Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris.
From the unrealized
L’Album d’Estampes Originales de la GalerieVollard
.A superb impression
of this scarce lithograph.
Johnson cites other impressions printed in black (there is also an edition of 100 printed in
colors, see above), at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Clark Art Institute,Williamstown;
and theYale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Based on Cézanne’s earlier painting,
Baigneurs au repo
s, 1875-76, now in the Barnes
Foundation, Philadelphia.
[10,000/15,000]
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