The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3002-04b
Dossier de chaise
c.1882 (or slightly later)
Alternate titles: Back of a Chair; Dossier de fauteuil; Rückenlehne eines Stuhls (Dossier de chaise); The Back of a Chair
Rewald (W188); Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (850): 1879–82
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. 4 verso removed from the EH I sketchbook
4 9/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.6 x 18.2 cm)
Private collection, United Kingdom
Provenance
Private collection, United Kingdom
Exhibition History
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 5, as The Back of a Chair, 1879-1882, lent by Sir Kenneth Clark. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 82, ill., as Rückenlehne eines Stuhls (Dossier de chaise), 1879-82, lent by Lord Clark, Hythe. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Tate, London, Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation, May 19–August 10, 2014, no. 41, p. 18, fig. 8, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 850, ill. vol. II, as Dossier de fauteuil.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, p. 4 verso (listed as missing).
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 188, ill.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38 (Sketchbook I; page 4 verso [missing]), ill. and p. 18, fig. 3, as Back of a Chair.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 607, 1453, ill. in color, as Dossier de chaise, 1879-1882.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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Record last updated February 6, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Dossier de chaise, c.1882 (or slightly later) (FWN 3002-04b), p. 4 verso removed from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1168 (accessed on June 15, 2025).
