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Catalogue entry

FWN 2218
La Lecture, études
1869–70
Alternate titles: Group portrait of Emile Zola dictating to Paul Alexis; Reading session, studies; Séance de lecture
Chappuis (222): 1866–67; Other: c.1880
Graphite on laid paper
5 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (14.3 x 19.6 cm)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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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. 59a, p. 68.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 52, ill.
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 28a, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).
Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 22.
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. 54, ill.
Mitterand 1963
H. Mitterand & J. Vidal. Album Zola. 1963, ill.
Cooper 1963a
Cooper, Douglas. "Untitled." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), p. 56.
Reff 1963c
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne Drawings." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 725 (August 1963), p. 375.
Andersen 1967b
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 277, pl. 22.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 247, ill., as Group portrait of Emile Zola dictating to Paul Alexis.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 222, ill., as Reading session, studies.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 140, fig. 74.
Klemm 1996
Klemm, Christian. "La lecture de Paul Alexis chez Zola, 1869/70 (Paul Alexis liest Zola vor)." In Degas, Cézanne, Picasso: Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz, Wismer, Beat, ed. Cologne and Aarau: Wienand Verlag and Aargauer Kunsthaus, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 123, as Séance de lecture.

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Record last updated February 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Lecture, études, 1869–70 (FWN 2218)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1875 (accessed on May 9, 2024).