1962.24: Heads of Mme Cézanne and Louis-Auguste Cézanne; verso: Corner of a Studio

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.24

People

Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Title

Heads of Mme Cézanne and Louis-Auguste Cézanne; verso: Corner of a Studio

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1877-1881

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296862

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

21.8 x 12.4 cm (8 9/16 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris. [1] [Paul Guillaume, Paris]. Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve. Otto Wertheimer, Paris. [Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York]. Marian H. Phinney, Cambridge, 1955, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

[1] 1936 article by Maurice Raynal, "Dessins de Cézanne." Arts et Métiers graphiques, no. 54 (August 15, 1936), indicates ownership is Cezanne fils.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.24

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Sketchbook page

Commentary

From the same sketchbook (Chappuis II) as Fogg drawing 2003.40.5.

Publication History

• Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), cat. no. 1293, Deuxième carnet p. XLI (verso) and XLIv (recto)
• Wayne V. Anderson, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1970), p. 91, no. 59, repr.; p. 188, no. 24, repr.
• Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), cat. nos. 536 (recto), 720 (verso), repr.
• Richard Kendall, Cézanne by Himself: Drawings, Paintings, Writings, Macdonald Orbis (London, 1988), p. 88, repr. (recto); p. 311, repr. (verso)
• Françoise Cachin, Cézanne, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1996), cat. no. 52, repr. (verso)
• Terence Maloon, ed., Classic Cézanne, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia, 1998), verso: no. 26; repr. in color p. 104
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 606 (verso)
• Christopher Lloyd, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors, J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames & Hudson (Los Angeles, 2015), p. 116; repr. as fig.90 on p.142; p. 272; repr. as fig. 205 on p.288
• Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman, ed., Cézanne Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2021), p. 208, repr. p. 214 (verso)

Exhibition History

• Cezanne Watercolours, Tate Britain, London, 09/18/1973 - 12/31/1973
• Cézanne, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 09/25/1995 - 01/07/1996; Tate Britain, London, 02/08/1996 - 04/28/1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 05/30/1996 - 09/01/1996
• Classic Cézanne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11/28/1998 - 02/28/1999
• Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
• Cézanne Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 06/06/2021 - 09/25/2021

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