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 3007-04a
Scène de carnaval
1885–88
Alternate titles: Carnaval; Carnival scene
Chappuis (935); Venturi (1487): 1885–90
Graphite on wove paper, p. IIII from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.6 x 20.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 142, ill., p. 132.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 96.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 189, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1487, ill. vol. II, as Carnaval.
Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 69, ill. might be in 1965 reprint only.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 935, ill., as Carnival scene.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 60, ill.
Seger, Annegret. "The Reconstruction of the Basel Sketchbooks of Paul Cézanne." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 237, fig. 6 (detail).
Related work
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: Scène de carnaval, 1885–88 (3007-04a)
Record last updated September 18, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Scène de carnaval, 1885–88 (FWN 3007-04a), p. IIII 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=2620 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
