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)
FWN 3017-37b
Main fermée et vers écrits au crayon
1868–71
Alternate title: Closed hand, verses written in pencil
Chappuis (179); Other: 1866–69
Graphite on brown wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook (fragment)
5 5/8 x 6 11/16 in. (14.3 x 16.9 cm)
Notation in the artist's hand: Ma gracieuse Marie / Je vous aime et vous prie / De garder les mot d'écrit / Que vous envoient vos amis. / Sur vos belles lèvres roses / Ce bonbon glissera bien / Il passe sur bien des choses / Sans en gâter le carmin. / Ce joli bonbon rose / Si gentiment tourné / Dans une bouche rose / Serait heureux d'entrer.
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 6a, ill., p. 30.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 26, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, letter VIIbis, p. 48.
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. 3, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 179, ill., as Closed hand, verses written in pencil.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
The sheets have been widely dispersed. Because there is no pagination, the FWN numbers have been assigned an arbitrary sequence and the pages listed individually.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated December 21, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Main fermée et vers écrits au crayon, 1868–71 (FWN 3017-37b), on brown wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1830 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
