Cézanne's House, L'Estaque

Maker

(artist)
1885-1963

Title

Date of Production

(circa 1920's) 1920 - 1929

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper, with pinholes at lower left corner and evidence that others at upper right corner have been trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 36.3 cm
Width: 29.1 cm

Accession Number

D.2016.XX.25

Mode of Acquisition

Brigid Peppin, gift, 2016

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Paul Cézanne, whom Saunders greatly admired, stayed in this house when he visited L’Estaque in the 1870s and 1880s, where he produced some of his most groundbreaking work. In selecting this semi-industrial suburb as a subject, Saunders seems to have been guided primarily by her regard for Cézanne, whom she considered a fellow ‘solitary by nature’. By painting his house rather than one of his pictorial subjects, she may have been paying homage to the French artist whilst following her own artistic path.

Provenance

with the artist until her death in 1963; bequeathed to her sister, Ethel Saunders; bequeathed to her first cousin once removed, Helen Peppin, 1971; given to her daughter, Brigid Peppin, 1989; offered by her as a gift and part-purchase to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2016

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Helen Saunders, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023

Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996

Literature

Peppin, Brigid, and Cork, Richard, Helen Saunders (1885-1963), exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Graves Art Gallery ,Sheffield, 1996
pp. 18, 49
ill. on p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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