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Paul Cézanne

1872 - 1947

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This tan-colored, fabric-covered sketchbook cover is marked with a few smudges of dark gray and white paint. The binding is to the left in this photograph. The cover is wide and has a cream-colored rope wrapped around the narrower end to our right. The weave of the fabric is visible. A few swipes of gray paint are spaced along the binding, to our left, and there are tiny touches of white, lavender purple, and brick red marking the cover. — Paul Cezanne, Cezanne Sketchbook, c. 1877/1900, sketchbook with 71 drawings in graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor; the sketchbook contains 46 sheets, several which are blank; the end papers, the recto of the first page, and half the verso of the final page were used for notes, lists, and arithmetical figuring; a draft of a letter to the critic Octave Mirbeau is on page II (recto), Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1992.51.9.a-zz

Cezanne Sketchbook

Paul Cezanne · c. 1877/1900 · sketchbook with 71 drawings in graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor; the sketchbook contains 46 sheets, several which are blank; the end papers, the recto of the first page, and half the verso of the final page were used for notes, lists, and arithmetical figuring; a draft of a letter to the critic Octave Mirbeau is on page II (recto) · Accession ID 1992.51.9.a-zz