Rare Vintage 1949 Cézanne "Le Jas de Bouffan" French Offset Lithograph

A rare vintage 1949 French reproduction of Cézanne's La Maison du Jas de Bouffan (1876-78). Color plate is 10 1/4 x 8 1/8" and is tipped in on heavy vintage cream paper.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.

In September 1859 Paul Cézanne’s father bought a large country house and farm, called the Jas de Bouffan, just outside Aix-en-Provence. For the next forty years, this estate, which included a large 18th-century house, alleys of chestnut trees, and views of Mont Sainte-Victoire (another of the artist’s favorite sites), afforded Cézanne with many of his subjects. No fewer than thirty-seven oils and sixteen watercolors of the Jas de Bouffan and its immediate environment have been catalogued, but it was only in the mid- and late 1880s that Cézanne explored the varied motifs offered by the manor and its grounds in real depth, as in paintings such as The Neighborhood of Jas de Bouffan.