PAUL CEZANNE

Cézanne only made five etchings during his lifetime. The etchings date from July 1873 when he was experimenting with his friend, the painter Armand Guillaumin, the subject of the etching "At the sign of the hanged man." According to Michel Melot, the artists made their prints at the studio of Dr Gachet, who had an etching press in his country house and had himself made a number of etchings. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 - 9 January 1909) was a French physician famous for treating Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Dr Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement.

Melot describes Cézanne 's etching working method as an "extraordinary violence" with which Cézanne attacked the plate, experimenting with a technique he had never been trained in.

 

Pasage a Auvars, Entree de Ferme Rue Saint-Remy

Etching original, ed.99/100 on Japon paper full edition 600, "Cezanne" published by Bernheim-Jeune, 1914

$6000

 

Portrait du Peintre A. Guillaumin au Pendu

 

Etching, 17 x 10 cm, 1873

$2000