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Catalogue entry

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FWN 3008-10a
Emile Zola lisant
1881–84
Alternate titles: Bildnis Emile Zola; Emile Zola reading; Portrait d'homme; Tête d'homme barbu écrivant
Chappuis (622); Venturi (1284-03)
Graphite on wove paper, p. X from the CP II sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 11/16 in. (12.5 x 22 cm)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934);
Private collection, Paris;
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 311, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 163, as Portrait d'homme, c. 1894-95, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 69, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 49, ill. p. 144, as Bildnis Emile Zola, 1881-1882, lent by Private collection, France.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1284-03, as "Page X".
Chappuis 1938
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 38, ill., as Tête d'homme barbu écrivant.
Reff 1959b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Drawings, 1875-1885." The Burlington Magazine 101, no. 674 (May 1959), p. 176 (mentioned).
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 239, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 622, ill., as Emile Zola reading.
Cézanne 2013
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 15, ill.
Dombrowski 2013
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 135, fig. 51.
Lobstein 2017a
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 355, ill.
Record last updated September 8, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Emile Zola lisant, 1881–84 (FWN 3008-10a), p. X from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2292 (accessed on April 23, 2024).