The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3007-44a
Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cezanne
1879–82
Alternate titles: Der Vater des Künstlers; Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cezanne; The Artist's Father Reading in an Armchair
Chappuis (413); Venturi (1403)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLIIII from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.5 x 20.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 153, as Der Vater des Künstlers, c. 1870, lent by Robert von Hirsch, Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 144, ill., p. 133.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 147, ill. p. 65.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 210, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1403, ill. vol. II, as "Page III v."
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 59.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 112, ill.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 27, ill.
Boisdeffre, PIerre, Pierre Cabanne, Raymond Cogniat. Cézanne. Collection Génies et Réalités. Paris: Hachette, 1966, p. 57, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 203, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and His Father." Studies in the History of Art 4 (1971-1972), fig. 10, as The Artist's Father Reading in an Armchair.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 413, ill., as Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cezanne.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 27, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 14, ill.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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current: Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cezanne, 1879–82 (3007-44a)
Record last updated February 21, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cezanne, 1879–82 (FWN 3007-44a), p. XLIIII from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2072 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
