- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2005.142
- People
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Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
- Title
- Sheet of Studies, including a Skull
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1868
- Culture
- French
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Graphite with splatters of watercolor on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 12.2 x 23 cm (4 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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collector's mark: verso: JR in black ink (presumably John Rewald)
- exhibition label: typed and inscribed: MINISTÈRE DE L'ÉDUCATION NATIONALE / RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX / ORANGERIE DES TUILERIES / EXPOSITION: Aix en Provenance + NICE + GRENOBLE / AUTEUR: CEZANNE / Titre de l'oeuvre: Le crane / Propriétaire: REWALD/ No du Catalogue: 25 reproduced p. 40
- gallery label: THE NEW GALLERY / 601 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK / ARTIST: DATE: / TITLE: STOCK: / MEDIUM: PRICE: / SIZE:
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collector's mark: verso: JR in black ink (presumably John Rewald)
- Provenance
- [Ambroise Vollard, Paris]. [Paul Cassirer, Berlin]. Erich Maria Remarque, Ascona. [Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich]. John Rewald, New York (by 1953). [New Gallery, New York (?)]. [Eugene V. Thaw, New York]. Richard B. Sisson, New York (before 1965); bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.142
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Commentary
- This drawing was once part of a larger sheet (see Adrien Chappuis, "The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné," Greenwich, 1973, cat. no. 125).
- Publication History
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Catalogus, teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1933), no. 12
Paul Cézanne Water Colours, exh. cat., Paul Cassirer Ltd (London, 1939), no. 3
John Rewald, ed., Paul Cézanne, Letters, Bruno Cassirer (London, 1941), fig. 8
John Rewald, Paul Cézanne, Spring Books (London, 1948(?)), repr. p. 40 (detail) [incorrectly listed as Boymans Museum]
John Rewald, The Ordeal of Paul Cezanne, Phoenix House (London, 1950), detail repr. p. 60 [incorrectly listed as Boymans Museum]
Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, exh. cat. (Aix-en-Provence, 1953), cat. no. 25, repr.
Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 12
Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), cat. no. 125B, repr.
Thomas F. Schneider and Inge Jaehner, ed., Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttigen and Bristol, Connecticut, 2013), cat. 11, repr. p. 195, p. 57
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 159, 284, repr. p. 158 as fig. 5
- Exhibition History
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Catalogus, teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 12/20/1933 - 01/21/1934
Paul Cézanne Water Colours, Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, 07/01/1939 - 07/31/1939
Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, 06/30/1953 - 08/05/1953; Musée Masséna, Nice, 08/08/1953 - 09/12/1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, 09/15/1953 - 10/18/1953
Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
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