The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Jerry L. Thompson; © johns
FWN 3018-05b
Crâne sur une table
1900 or later
Alternate titles: Crâne sur une bible; Paysage et crâne; Skull on a Bible; Skull on a table; Totenschädel auf einem Tisch
Chappuis (1214); Venturi (1315-07)
Graphite on wove paper, p. X from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 11/16 in. (21 x 27.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 166, as Paysage et crâne, c. 1895-1906, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 73, as Crâne sur une bible, c. 1895, lent by Adrien Chappuis.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 91, as Skull on a Bible, c. 1895, lent by A. Chappius.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 123, ill. p. 219, as Totenschädel auf einem Tisch, c. 1900, lent by Private collection, France.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 76, Collection Jasper Johns.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Jasper Johns – The Artist as Collector, From Cezanne to de Kooning, September 30, 2023–February 4, 2024, no. 3, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1315-7, as "Page X".
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 46, ill., as Crâne sur une table.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1214, ill., as Skull on a table.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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current: Crâne sur une table, 1900 or later (3018-05b)
Record last updated March 5, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Crâne sur une table, 1900 or later (FWN 3018-05b), p. X from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2910 (accessed on March 24, 2025).
