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Catalogue entry

FWN 873
Trois crânes
c.1898
Alternate titles: Les trois crânes; The Three Skulls; Three Skulls
Rewald (821): 1898–1900; Venturi revised: 1900–1904; Venturi (1567): c.1900; Reff: c.1902 (MoMA); Other: c.1898
Oil on canvas
13 3/8 x 23 5/8 in. (34 x 60 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (July 18, 1899?)
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris (1935)
Angus Whyte Gallery, Boston (1938)
Robert H. Tannahill, Grosse Pointe Farms (1940);
Detroit Institute of Arts (1970)
Exhibition History
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 26, ill., as Les trois crânes.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1937a Montreal
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Paintings by French Masters, February 1937, no. 12, ill.
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 24, ill., as Les trois crânes, dated c. 1900.
1938 Washington, D.C.
Whyte Gallery, Washington, D.C., Twentieth Century French Masters, November–December 1938, no. 2.
1940 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 8.
1954 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 103, ill., as The Three Skulls, c. 1900, lent anonymously.
1970 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, A Collector's Treasure: The Tannahill Bequest, May 13–August 13, 1970.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 90, ill., as Trois crânes. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
2001–02 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 192, 193, pl. 90, as The Three Skulls, lent by Detroit Institute. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
2008–09 Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, listed p. 356, ill. p. 279, as Trois crânes, 1898-1900.
2014–15 Philadelphia and traveling
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014, pl. 18, p. 214 (dated c. 1900). Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 142, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Bourgeois 1936
Bourgeois, Stephan. "A Vivid Panorama of Cézanne." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 22, ill., as Three Skulls.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1567, ill. vol. II, as Trois crânes.
Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 8.
Anonymous 1940
Anonymous. "Noted Works Mark Show at Institute." Detroit Free Press, May 5, 1940, p. 51 (mentioned), as The Three Skulls.
Robinson 1941
Robinson, Francis W. "Two Works by Paul Cézanne." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit 20, no. 4 (January, 1941), pp. 31-33, ill. p. 32, as Three Skulls.
Laporte 1944
Laporte, Paul M. "Cézanne and Whitman." Magazine of Art 37, no. 6 (October 1944), p. 224, ill.
Cummings 1970
Cummings, Frederick. "Tannahill Taste." Art News 69, no. 3 (May 1970), p. 33, ill.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1971
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1225 (February 1971), p. 100, no. 463, ill., as Les trois crânes, c. 1900.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 153.
Shiff 1978
Shiff, Richard. "Seeing Cézanne." Critical Inquiry 4, no. 4 (Summer 1978), fig. 6.
Reff 1983
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Severed Head and the Skull." Arts Magazine 58, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 99, fig. 18.
Shiff 1984
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 191, 212-213, fig. 42, 52, as Three Skulls, c. 1900.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 264, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 250, ill.
Baron and Bonafoux 1993
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 59, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 493, fig. 1.
Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 24-5, ill.
Rewald 1996
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. 821, ill. vol. 2, as Trois crânes.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 184, fig. 4.33, as Trois crânes.
Leca 2014
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 12, as The Three Skulls.
Brettell 2019
Brettell, Richard R. On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cézanne. Los Angeles: Getty Publicatons, 2019, fig. 38, c. 1900.
Record last updated January 31, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois crânes, c.1898 (FWN 873)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=797 (accessed on March 28, 2024).