Paul Cézanne - La côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise 1877
La côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise 1877
65x54cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 8.64 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 15 May 2017
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
The present landscape, which Cézanne painted during a visit with Pissarro at Pontoise, very likely in 1877, bears witness to the extraordinary creative partnership that the older artist nostalgically recalled some two decades later.