Cezanne sketch rediscoverd
Nearly a year after the "Card Players" painting, by repute, sold for over $250 million to a Middle east collector, a study for Paul Cezanne's master work, missing for decades, has been rediscovered among the paintings of a Texas art collector, and looks set to sell for more than $15 million when it goes under the hammer later this year.
Nearly a year after the "Card Players" painting, by repute, sold for over $250 million to a Middle east collector, a study for Paul Cezanne's master work, missing for decades, has been rediscovered among the paintings of a Texas art collector, and looks set to sell for more than $15 million when it goes under the hammer later this year.
The watercolor, one of the preparatory sketches for Cezanne's five painting series, was only known from a black and white photograph, having last been seen in public in 1953, and was presumed lost. But the well kept work was found earlier this year in the collection of Texas medical expert and art collector Dr. Heinz F. Eichenwald, and will be sold at Christie's in New York on May 1, with an estimate of £15-20 million...
Christie's predicts a alot of interest from collectors in the piece, and probably also by the current new opwners of the actual painting.