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  • Provenance

    Acquired by Fritz and Lilly Cassirer, Berlin, prior to 1926

    By descent to the present owner

    Fritz Cassirer was the brother of the
    prominent art dealer Bruno Cassirer and his cousin and business partner Paul
    Cassirer. Their Berlin gallery was instrumental in promoting the artists of
    the Berlin Secession and the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, in
    particular Van Gogh and Cézanne. The present impression ofLes
    Baigneurswas acquired by Fritz prior to his death in 1926, and was brought
    to Oxford, England during World War II by Fritz's widow Lilly and her second
    husband, the eminent physician and head of internal medicine at the Schwabinger
    Hospital in Munich, Professor Otto Neubauer. Upon Neubauer's death in 1957,
    Lilly Cassirer moved to the United States, bringing the Cézanne with her, and
    the work has remained in the family ever since.

  • Literature

    Ambroise, Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, London, 1936, pp. 247-248
    Lionello, Venturi, Cézanne: son Art - son Oeuvre, No. 1157, Vol. 1, Paris, 1936, p. 287
    Alphonse Kann maquette repr. Vol. 2, pl. 332
    Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard,Editeur, 1867-1939, New York, 1944, No. 30, pp. 15,
    68-9, 193
    Melvin Waldfogel, Caillebotte, Vollard and Cézanne’s "Baigneurs au Repos", Gazette
    des Beaux-Arts, February 1965, pp. 113-20, repr. p.114
    Jean Cherpin, L’Oeuvre gravé de Cézanne, Arts et Livres de Provence: Bulletin, No.82,
    1972, No.7, pp. 47-58, 68-9, first state repr. p.53
    Douglas W. Druick, Cézanne, Vollard and Lithography: the Ottawa Maquette for the
    "Large Bathers" Colour Lithograph,
    The National Gallery of Canada Bulletin, 19, 1972,
    1974, pp. 1-36, repr. p. 8
    Douglas Druick and William Rubin (ed.), Cézanne’s Lithographs, Cézanne: the Late
    Work
    , London, 1978, pp. 119-37, first state repr. p. 125

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Les baigneurs grande planche (The Large Bathers)

1896-c.1898
Lithograph in colors, on MBM paper, with margins,
S. 15 1/2 x 24 1/8 in (39.4 x 61.3 cm)
Druick's second state (of three), signed in the stone and printed ‘Tirage à cent exemplaires no.', from the edition of approximately 100 (there was another edition of 100 in the final state with the signature and annotation erased), published by Ambroise Vollard, printed by Auguste Clot, Paris, generally in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $35,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm