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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Sketchbook No. 2 (L'Estaque)
    Paul Cezanne. Sketchbook No. 2 (L'Estaque), 1875–86. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003240

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    Sketchbook No. 2 (L'Estaque)

    by Paul Cezanne

    Provenance

    The artist’s son, Paul Cézanne, Paris; consigned to Maurice Renou and Jean Poyet, Paris; sold to Sam Salz, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition," Feb. 7–Mar. 16, 1952, cat. 90, p. 80; also New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 1–May 16, 1952. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago," Oct. 17-Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 109. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Cézanne," May 26-Aug. 18, 1996, cat. 41. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Madame Cezanne," Nov. 17, 2015-Ma. 15, 2015, pp. 106 (ill.), 110, 118-19, 122-24, 130, 218-19, figs. 42, 50, 57, pl. 31, cat. by Dita Amory et. al. Kunstmuseum Basel, "The Hidden Cezanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas," June 10-Sept. 24, 2017, pp. 72-75, cat. 74, folios IV, V, XVIII, XX, XIX, XXI, cat. by Dr. Anita Haldemann, et. al. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Cezanne: The Drawings", June 6 - September 26, 2021, p. 19, fig. 4, pp. 72-73, pl. 65a-b, 66a-b, cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne", May 11 - September 5, 2022, pp. 116-117, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.

    Publications

    "Sketchbook of a French Master," The Christian Science Monitor (Mar. 15, 1951), p. 3 (ill.). "Cezanne Sketchbook Here," This Week in Chicago (Mar. 17, 1951), p. 17 (ill.). Chicago Daily News (Oct. 24, 1951). "Paul Cézanne Sketchbook," The New Yorker (Dec. 8, 1951), pp. 177-78. The New Republic (Dec. 10, 1951), p. 21. Howard Devree, "Cézanne at Work," The New York Times Book Review (Dec. 23, 1951), p. 13 (ill.). John Rewald, Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. (Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951), pp. 30–37. Carl O. Schniewind (editor), Paul Cézanne Sketchbook Owned by the Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Curt Valentin, 1951). Gerard J. R. Frankl, "The Literature of Art-Cézanne Sketchbook belonging to the Art Institute of Chicago," Burlington Magazine (Jan. 1952), pp. 33-34. Die Kunst (Jan. 1952), p. 119. Walter Pach, "Analyst of Classicism," Saturday Review (Jan. 5, 1952), p. 38 (ill.). "Cézanne’s Sketchbook Show Steps to Artistry," The Chicago Sun Times (Jan. 13, 1952), p. 7 (ill.). "Drawings by Cézanne," The Times Literary Supplement (Feb. 1, 1952), p. 88. Wayne Andersen, "Cézanne’s Sketchbook in The Art Institute of Chicago," Burlington Magazine 104 (May 1962), pp. 196-200 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), nos. 1C9-2D11. Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996), p. 251 (ill.). Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N. J., 1999), p. 278, fig. 10.1. Walter Feilchenfeldt, "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe," in "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh (Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005). Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash.,"Sketchbook Chicago, 1875–86 (FWN 3006)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2995 (accessed on February 1, 2019).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Cézanne / French, 1839-1906
    Date
    1875–86
    Medium
    Graphite and pen and ink drawings on paper, bound into a book
    Dimensions
    12.4 × 21.7 cm (4 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    sketchbook
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Arthur Heun Purchase Fund
    Accession no.
    1951.1

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