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Catalogue entry

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)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Bequest of John S. Newberry)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
McNeil Reid, London;
Reid & Lefèvre, London
Mrs. A. Chester Beatty, London (Oct. 27, 1937)
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1960)
Otto Wertheimer, Paris (1960)
John S. Newberry, Grosse Pointe, Michigan (1961);
Detroit Institute of Arts (1965)
Exhibition History
1937d London
Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne Watercolours, December 1937, no. 9, as Un crâne.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 69, as Skull and Book, c. 1900, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
1946c London and traveling
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.
1962 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [unknown title], 1962, no. 28.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 77, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 75, Detroit Institute of Arts.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1568, ill. vol. II, as Un crâne.
Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 28, no.16, ill. (dated 1895-1900), Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Detroit Institute of Arts 1965
The John S. Newberry Collection. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965, p. 23, ill.
Detroit Institute of Arts 1966
"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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 231, ill,.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
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 4, 2024).