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Lot 59

CÉZANNE (PAUL)
Autograph letter signed, to Camille Pissarro, Aix, April 1876

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
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CÉZANNE (PAUL)

Autograph letter signed ("Paul Cézanne"), to Camille Pissarro ("Mon cher Pissarro"), in French, discussing the reception of the second Impressionist Exhibition at Durand-Ruel, mentioning a hostile review by Albert Wolff in Le Figaro and that, even so, Monet sold his La Japonaise for two thousand francs, talking of the sensation caused by the rejection of Manet's works at the Salon, explaining the confusion over a review by the journalist Authier (alias Jean-Lubin) which erroneously described Monet and Pissarro as 'imitators' instead of 'initiators', complaining of the 'aquatic' weather and although his fruits and vines have been ruined by frost, he consoles himself with art and painting ('that's the advantage of art, painting remains'), ending by admitting that he too had received a rejection letter from the Salon, 4 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining, creased at folds, small pin holes where folds join, 8vo (208 x 271mm.), Aix, April 1876

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'VOYEZ L'ADVANTAGE DE L'ART, LA PEINTURE RESTE': CEZANNE TO PISSARRO ON PAINTING AND THE SECOND IMPRESSIONIST EXHIBITION.

This long letter is written at the time of the month-long second Impressionist Exhibition at Galerie Durand-Ruel which began on 2 April 1876. Of the nearly 300 works exhibited, Pissarro showed twelve paintings, Monet eighteen works and Degas twenty-four. The exhibition is particularly known for introducing the artist Gustave Caillebotte, who also put up the majority of the finance. Neither Cézanne nor Manet exhibited although, as our letter reveals, Manet, whom Cézanne reports here as having been rejected from the Salon, chose to exhibit at his own home. It is one of six letters to Pissarro published in John Rewald, Paul Cézanne, Letters, 1941, no.XXXIII, p.100-101, and is also included in Alex Danchev, The Letters of Paul Cézanne, 2013, no.56, p.153.

Provenance: Boisseau-Pomez, Troyes, 2 February 2007, lot 2; Artcurial, Paris, 2 April 2019, lot 324.

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