loading loading

Catalogue entry

Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3017-08a
Etudes pour L'Orgie
1864–68
Alternate titles: Skizzenblatt mit Studien für: Die Orgie; Studies for The Orgy
Chappuis (135); Venturi (1184): 1870–77
Graphite on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 3/16 in. (17.7 x 23.3 cm)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 7, ill. p. 98, as Skizzenblatt mit Studien für: Die Orgie, 1864-1868, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 9, ill., p. 22.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 29, ill.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 35, ill. and on the spine of the cloth cover.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1184, ill. vol. II.
Chappuis 1962
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 15, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 135, ill., as Studies for The Orgy.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 32; vol. 2, p. 45, as Studies for The Orgy.

Related work

Record last updated February 10, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes pour L'Orgie, 1864–68 (FWN 3017-08a), page from the BSB sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1786 (accessed on May 1, 2025).