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Object Number

2005.142

People

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

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/19245

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

• 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:

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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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).

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.

Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Cézanne and Provenace: The Painter in His Culture, The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2003), pp. 161-162, repr. p. 161 as fig. 4.18

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

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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