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)
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Bruce M. White
FWN 1985
Etude de crâne
1902–04
Alternate titles: Crâne; Der Schädel; Le Crâne; Study of a Skull; Totenkopf; Totenschädel
Rewald (W613); Venturi revised: 1900–04; Venturi (1130): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Watermark: MONTGOLFIER SAINT MARCEL LES ANNONAY
10 x 12 1/2 in. (25.4 x 31.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles & pastels de Cézanne, H.E. Cross, Degas, Jongkind, Camille Pissarro, K.X. Roussel, Paul Signac, Vuillard, May 3–15, 1909, no. 5, as Crâne.
1913 London probably
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 22, as Le Crâne, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 425, as Der Schädel, [lent by Bernheim-Jeune], for sale.
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 110, as Totenkopf.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 89, as Totenkopf, c. 1900, lent by Georg Reinhart, Winterthur.
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Der unbekannte Winterthurer Privatbesitz, 1500-1900, September–October 1942, no. 334, as Totenschädel, drawing.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 18.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 10.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 25, ill. in b/w, as Etude de crâne, 1895-1900.
University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Twenty-five Master Drawings, March 26–April 23, 1962, no. 15. Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 15–July 1, 1962.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 57, pl. LIV, as Etude de crâne, 1900-1904, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 9.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, 1965, no. 2.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 11.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 26, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 5.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 13.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, hors catalogue, shown in Boston only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 10.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 8.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 36, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 72, ill., pl. 159, as Study of a Skull, 1902-04, lent by Estate of Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 217, ill. in color, p. 495, as Etude de crâne, 1902-1903, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Die Sammlung Georg Reinhart, May 24–August 23, 1998, no. 85, ill.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 30.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003. (Exhibition catalogue: Simms 2002), no. 12, ill.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 20, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 74, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Reinhart, Georg Theodor. Katalog meiner Sammlung. Winterthur: [privately published], 1922, p. 41.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1130, ill. vol. II, as Etude de crâne.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 27.
Nathan, Fritz and Nathan, Peter. 25 Jahre Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan. Winterthur: Buchdruckerei Winterthur, 1961, no. 88, ill.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 613, ill.
Pearlman, Henry. Reminiscences of a collector. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, p. 17-18, ill. in color.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 158, fig. 99 (cat. 20).
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 306, fig. 222.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 298, ill., as Etude de crâne, installation photograph from 1914 exhibitiion, p. 99.
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Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude de crâne, 1902–04 (FWN 1985)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1596 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
