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Catalogue entry

FWN 3017-10a
Tête d'homme et étude pour L'Orgie
1864–68
Alternate title: Portrait, and study for The Orgy
Chappuis (139)
Graphite on paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 7/16 in. (17.7 x 24 cm)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 7, ill., p. 20.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 350, listed (Museum Basel).
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. 12, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 139, ill., as Portrait, and study for The Orgy.
Chédeville 2020
Chédeville, François. "A propos des 'Études à partir de peintures assyriennes.'" Société Cezanne, November 16, 2020.
Notes

Chappuis suggests that the head of the man might be Bazille.

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. "Tête d'homme et étude pour L'Orgie, 1864–68 (FWN 3017-10a), 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=1790 (accessed on May 6, 2024).