The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 3018-26b
Lit défait
1885–90
Alternate title: Detailstudie eines ungemachten Bettes
Rewald (W189); Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1316-12)
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. LII from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 13/16 in. (21 x 27.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, April 8–August 28, 2005, no. 99, ill., as Detailstudie eines ungemachten Bettes.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July 20–October 7, 2007, no. 121, ill., as Detailstudie eines ungemachten Bettes, c. 1885-1890.
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 19, ill., as Detailstudie eines ungemachten Bettes, c. 1885-1890, lent by Jan Krugier.
W. M. Brady & Co, New York, Old Master and 19th-Century Drawings 1540-1890, January 27–February 13, 2015, no. 31, ill.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 77, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 69, Private collection, New York.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1316-12, as Lit défait , as "Page LII".
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 189, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 268, fig. 191.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 11.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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current: Lit défait, 1885–90 (3018-26b)
Record last updated December 10, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Lit défait, 1885–90 (FWN 3018-26b), p. LII from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1169 (accessed on March 25, 2025).
