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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 838
Nature morte au crâne
1890–93
Alternate titles: Nature morte; Still Life with Skull
Rewald (734): 1896–98; Venturi revised: 1900–1904; Venturi (758): 1895–1900; Gowing: c.1900 (MoMA); Machotka et al: 1892–93
Oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (54.3 x 65.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no number, Hoogendijk collection.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 148–49, ill. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Courthion, Pierre. Panorama de la peinture française contemporaine. Paris: S. Kra, 1927, ill. opp. p. 32.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 758, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte au crâne .
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 187, p. 275, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 79.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), pl. 31.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 40.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 152.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 37.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Colli: pl. 8.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 271, fig. 139.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 62.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 734, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte au crâne .
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 295; vol. 2, p. 190, as Nature morte au crâne .
Cowling, Elizabeth. "'Le drame de l'homme.' Le Cézannisme de Picasso en 1906–08." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 9.
Janssen, Hans. "'Wanneer men het inner lijke beeldt…!' Mondriaan en de invloed van Picasso en Cézanne op zijn werk." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 24, as Nature morte au crâne .
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 98–99, ill. p. 91, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Stern, Lynn, and Donald Kuspit. Skull. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017, p. 66, ill.
Devaney, Edith. "Gorky's Point of View." In Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948. New York: Hauser and Worth, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 29–31, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, figs. 79, 178 pp. 95, 186 (with erroneous FWN no.)
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 54, pp. 271–74, as Still Life with Skull (catalogue notes by N. Locke).
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 29.
Heteran, Marjan van. "Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, p. 121, fig. 127.
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Record last updated February 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte au crâne, 1890–93 (FWN 838)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=712 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
