May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ON IMITATION JAPAN PAPER PAUL CÉZANNE
Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même.

Lithograph printed in black on smooth off-white imitation Japan paper, 1896-97. 325x250 mm; 12 3/4x9 3/4 inches, full margins. Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. A superb, evenly-printed impression.

According to Johnson, some 300 impressions were printed in black and approximately 200 impressions were printed in gray, all on Arches Ingres laid paper. There were additionally, like the current print, an unknown number of impressions printed on imitation Japan paper. We have identified only several other impressions on imitation Japan paper, as opposed to dozens of impressions on laid paper, at auction over the past 20 years. Cherpin 12.