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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)
Jasper Johns

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1933)
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 308, ill.
Jasper Johns
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
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.
1939 Lyon
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.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 91, as Skull on a Bible, c. 1895, lent by A. Chappius.
1978 Tübingen
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.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 76, Collection Jasper Johns.
2023–24 Basel
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1315-7, as "Page X".
Chappuis 1938
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 46, ill., as Crâne sur une table.
Chappuis 1973
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.

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Record last updated October 1, 2020. 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 April 20, 2024).