Sketchbook No. 2 (L'Estaque)

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Prints and Drawings

1875–86

Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906

Status: On loan to Tate Modern in London for Cezanne
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Cezanne
Title: Sketchbook No. 2 (L'Estaque)
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1875–1886
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.)
Credit Line: Arthur Heun Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1951.1
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“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).

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.

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.

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