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 1913
Un crâne
c.1885
Alternate titles: A skull; Skull and Book
Rewald (W231); Venturi revised: 1900–04; Venturi (1568): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
9 1/4 x 12 3/16 in. (23.5 x 31 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 69, as Skull and Book, c. 1900, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 34, as A skull, 1895-1900, lent by Chester Beatty. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 51, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 77, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 75, Detroit Institute of Arts.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1568, ill. vol. II, as Un crâne.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 28, no.16, ill. (dated 1895-1900), Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965, p. 23, ill.
"Appendix VI: Accessions, January 1 to December 31, 1965." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 45, no. 1 (1966), listed p. 16, ill. p. 20, as Skull and Book.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 231, ill,.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 88.
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Record last updated January 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Un crâne, c.1885 (FWN 1913)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1211 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
