Artist: Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906).
Title: "Tête de Jeune Fille".
Medium: Original etching with roulette.
Date: 1873. Printed later.
Lot Note(s): Signed in the plate, lower right. Cream wove paper. Very wide margins. Very fine, well-inked impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Cherpin 4; V1160. Overall size: 13 11/16 x 9 7/8 in. (348 x 251 mm). Image size: 5 3/16 x 4 1/4 in. (132 x 108 mm). Michel Melot, "The Impressionist Print" (Yale University Press, 1996) says, "The most elaborate of Cezanne's etchings is the 'Head of a Girl', with the shadow in the background worked over with a roulette. Whereas the landscapes are presented without any reworking, this simple, regular face, seen in close up and head on against quite a strong back light with its attendant shadows, has been made more dramatic: the hair is a tangle of lines, there are acid spots everywhere and the eyes are black dots.". [6946-2-400]

Fine condition.