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FWN 2227
Feuille d'études dont un crâne
c.1868
Alternate titles: Crâne; Page of studies, including a skull; Sheet of Studies, including a Skull; Skull, Study
Chappuis (125B)
Graphite with splatters of watercolor on wove paper (fragment)
4 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (12.2 x 23 cm)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier)
Feuille d'études dont un crâne, c.1868 (FWN 2227). Verso
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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Wladimir Walter, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (1937)
Erich Maria Remarque, Porto Ronco (Oct. 1937)
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich
John Rewald, New York (1953)
E.V. Thaw, New York
Richard P. Sisson, New York (1965);
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (2005)
Exhibition History
1939e London
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 3, as Skull, Study, dated c. 1880, lent by Private collection; Exhibited for the first time.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 25, ill. p. [40], as Crâne, c. 1866, lent by Private collection, New York. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
1956 Bowdoin
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Collecting Privately, 1956, no. 12, ill.
2017 Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium,, January 21–May 7, 2017, pp. 159, 284, repr. p. 158 as fig. 5.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 7, Harvard Art Museums.
Published References
Cézanne 1946
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1946, no. 8.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 74, ill. (detail).
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 125B, ill., as Page of studies, including a skull.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 161, fig. 4.18, as Page of studies, including a skull.
Schneider and Jaehner 2013
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 194-95, no. 11, ill.; p. 57 (list of artworks), c. 1938.
Aebi and Haddad 2022
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), fig. 4 (reconstitution of original sheet).
Feuille d'études dont un crâne, c.1868 (FWN 2227). Identified by Adrien Chappuis. Reconstituted sheet, image courtesy of François Chédeville. Formerly Chappuis 125 (FWN1810), 125a (FWN1811) and 125b (FWN2227)
Identified by Adrien Chappuis. Reconstituted sheet, image courtesy of François Chédeville. Formerly Chappuis 125 (FWN1810), 125a (FWN1811) and 125b (FWN2227)

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Record last updated September 23, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Feuille d'études dont un crâne, c.1868 (FWN 2227), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1776 (accessed on May 5, 2024).