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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.40.3
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Tree Trunks
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Troncs d'arbres
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1885
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/97993

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
12.6 x 20.7 cm (4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed and inscribed: Bomford Collection. / Arbres / P. Cezanne / Venturi Page 349. / Ex Coll. K. Clark / 12 1/2 x 21 cm. / Les troncs dépouillés / touches d'aquarelle.
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed: IRISH EXHIBITION ... LIVING ART 1948 [with tree in center]
  • gallery label: formerly back of frame, printed: THE MAYOR GALLERY / LIMITED, / 14, BROOK STREET, LONDON, W.I. / 4011 [stamped number]
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed: ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY / CHAPMAN BROTHERS / (CHELSEA) LIMITED / PICTURE RESTORERS / CARVERS - GILDERS / FRAME MAKERS / Etc. / 241 KING'S ROAD / CHELSEA / (Opposite Carlyle Square) / [in graphite:] 3134 / Telephone. / FLAXMAN 0674 / Estimates given / for decorative / Gilding / Telegrams. / FRAMABLE - SOUTHKENS - LONDON
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed: JAMES BOURLET & SONS, Ltd., / Fine Art Packers, Frame Makers, / D18321 / 17 & 18, NASSAU STREET, / MORTIMER STREET, W. / PHONES: MUSEUM 1871 & 7588
  • label: formerly back of frame, black ballpoint ink: Troncs d'arbres / #181 in "Paul Cézanne - The Watercolors / by John Rewald - Catalogue / Raisonné - Page 128
  • inscription: formerly back of frame, black ink: Papier beige [continues description from Bomford Collection label]
  • inscription: formerly back of frame, graphite: AA - 7870 / Almeda / 49 1/2
  • inscription: formerly back of frame, lower right, graphite: ESF
  • inscription: upper right, graphite: 3
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: XIII

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Paul Guillaume[?], Paris.
Kenneth Clark, London.
H. J. Bomford, London.
Mayor Gallery, London, sold to Harold Gershinowitz. per Gershinowitz letter to Mary Lee Bennett, Aug. 17, 1966
Harold and Mary Gershinowitz, New York, NY, purchased from Mayor Gallery, London, bequest to HUAM, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mary Gershinowitz
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.40.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook page

Publication History

  • The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, website, no. FWN 3007-13a; https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1160; accessed 2-13-24
  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), p. 349
  • John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. no. 181, repr.

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