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Catalogue entry

FWN 3017-30a
Hommes discutant; femme nue couchée
1868–72
Alternate titles: Discussion between two men, reclining nude woman; Skizzenblatt mit liegendem weiblichen Akt und zwei stehenden männlichen Figuren
Chappuis (236)
Graphite and ink on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 1/4 in. (17.7 x 23.4 cm)
Notations in the artist's hand: Gazette des Beaux-Arts rue Vivienne / près du boulevard librairie internationale / chez Colin Blanc de / Cremnitz
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 6, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 151, as Discussion between two men, reclining nude woman, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 13, ill. p. 104, as Skizzenblatt mit liegendem weiblichen Akt und zwei stehenden männlichen Figuren, 1868-1872, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 22, ill., p. 34.
1988d New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 53.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 44, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, 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. 40, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 236, ill., as Discussion between two men, reclining nude woman.
Koepplin 1988
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 16, ill.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 135, fig. 79.
Record last updated March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Hommes discutant; femme nue couchée, 1868–72 (FWN 3017-30a), 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=1891 (accessed on May 7, 2024).