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Study for L'Autopsie
by Paul Cezanne
Provenance
Possibly Auguste Pellerin (died 1929), Paris [according to notes in the curatorial file, Maynard Walker provided this information]. Mrs. Benny Goodman (née Alice Duckworth; died 1979) [Chappuis 1973]. Sold by the Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings," 1952, p. 18, cat. 8 (ill.); traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 107. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 33 (ill.). Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," February 27-March 28, 1971, p. 96, cat. 65 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-May 16, 1971; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-July 3, 1971. Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Paul Cézanne," October 14-December 31, 1978. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Cezanne: The Early Yeas, 1859-1872," April 22-August 21, 1988, p. 209, cat. 75 (ill.); traveled to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 15-December 31, 1988, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 29-April 30, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013 The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne", May 11 - September 5, 2022, p. 88, cat. 21 (ill.), cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Publications
John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: A Biography (New York, 1948), pl. 13. John Rewald, The Ordeal of Paul Cézanne (London, 1950), fig. 3. Adrien Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne (Lausanne, 1957), p. 76-77, no. 3 (ill). Alfred Neumeyer, Cézanne Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 36, no. 4 (ill.). John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1961), p. 63 (ill.). Yvon Taillandier, P. Cézanne (New York, 1977), p. 14 (ill.). Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne (New York, 1964), p. 24 (ill.) Richard W. Murphy, The World of Cézanne (New York, 1968), p. 24 (ill.). Chiuji Ikegami, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne (Tokyo, 1970 ), p.132, no. 76 (ill.). Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1973), no. 110. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, 2 (Chicago, 1979), no. 1B11. Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais, Cézanne (Paris, 1995), p. 281, fig. 2. Judit Gesko, Cezanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2012), p. 101, fig 55. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash, "Nu, c.1869 (FWN 2111)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1758 (accessed on February 1, 2019).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne / French, 1839-1906
- Date
- 1867/69
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 32 × 48.7 cm (12 5/8 × 19 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
- Accession no.
- 1947.36
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