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- Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso)
Paul Cézanne
Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso)
Found at
Christies,
London
Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale, Lot 428
4. Mar - 4. Mar 2022
Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale, Lot 428
4. Mar - 4. Mar 2022
Estimate: 180.000 - 250.000 GBP
Price realised: 466.200 GBP
Price realised: 466.200 GBP
Description
PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)
Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
5 3⁄8 x 5 1⁄4 in. (13.7 x 13.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1879-1882
The three beautiful Cézanne drawings presented in this sale have been selected by gallerist, collector, author and publisher Karsten Schubert, just months before his untimely death in 2019.
A great connoisseur of Cézanne’s work, Schubert moved to England from Berlin after being lured by a friend to travel there, and fell immediately in love with London. There, he quickly became widely respected as a dealer in contemporary art, but his taste as a collector was much more conservative. He played an unparalleled part in promoting the group that would come to be known as the Young British Artists, and became a private artists' representative working with a select number of them, most famously Bridget Riley. In fact, it was through Riley, who had been deeply invested herself in Cézanne’s work form an early age, that Karsten Schubert came to a deeper understanding of the work of the French artist, whose drawings he started buying frantically, and continued to do so until the very end of his tragically interrupted life.
‘Cézanne always posed a problem for me.’ He would say in a conversation with the curator and art historian Yuval Etgar ‘That’s why I never managed to let go of him. On the contrary, the obsession seems only to be getting worse with time.’ […] ‘I bought my first Cézanne […] around 1983 or 1984. I did it out of sheer curiosity, not connoisseurship.’ (Exh. Cat., Ce´zanne at the Whitworth, the Karsten Schubert bequest, Manchester, 2019, p. 16).
Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
5 3⁄8 x 5 1⁄4 in. (13.7 x 13.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1879-1882
The three beautiful Cézanne drawings presented in this sale have been selected by gallerist, collector, author and publisher Karsten Schubert, just months before his untimely death in 2019.
A great connoisseur of Cézanne’s work, Schubert moved to England from Berlin after being lured by a friend to travel there, and fell immediately in love with London. There, he quickly became widely respected as a dealer in contemporary art, but his taste as a collector was much more conservative. He played an unparalleled part in promoting the group that would come to be known as the Young British Artists, and became a private artists' representative working with a select number of them, most famously Bridget Riley. In fact, it was through Riley, who had been deeply invested herself in Cézanne’s work form an early age, that Karsten Schubert came to a deeper understanding of the work of the French artist, whose drawings he started buying frantically, and continued to do so until the very end of his tragically interrupted life.
‘Cézanne always posed a problem for me.’ He would say in a conversation with the curator and art historian Yuval Etgar ‘That’s why I never managed to let go of him. On the contrary, the obsession seems only to be getting worse with time.’ […] ‘I bought my first Cézanne […] around 1983 or 1984. I did it out of sheer curiosity, not connoisseurship.’ (Exh. Cat., Ce´zanne at the Whitworth, the Karsten Schubert bequest, Manchester, 2019, p. 16).
Upper estimate price exceeded by 86 %.
This artwork by Paul Cézanne achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in March last year. In the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale auction, the work Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso) sold for GBP 466,200.00 (€ 552,732.57) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 250,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Paul Cézanne achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work La Montagne Sainte-Victoire in November last year with an auction result of USD 137,790,000.00 (€ 133,478,639.93).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 86 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Paul Cézanne erzielte im März letzten Jahres bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale wurde die Arbeit Cinq baigneuses (recto); Études de baigneuse (verso) für GBP 466.200,00 (€ 552.732,57) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 250.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Paul Cézanne erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit La Montagne Sainte-Victoire im November letzten Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 137.790.000,00 (€ 133.478.639,93).