Waking Up [verso], c. 1880

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 43.6 x 31 cm (17 3/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Rewald 1983, no. 136

Accession Number

1995.47.26.b

Artists / Makers

Paul Cezanne (artist) French, 1839 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left in graphite: 42X

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris, by 1936);[1] (Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris); Private collection, Paris; (Paul Rosenberg, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, by 1983; gift to NGA, 1995.

[1] See Lionello Venturi, Cézanne Son Art - Son Oeuvre. Paul Rosenberg Éditeur, Paris, 1936, no. 1542.

Associated Names

Daber, Alfred
Mellon, Paul
Rosenberg, Paul
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1977: Cézanne: The Late Work. Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1977-1978, no. 71 (recto only).

1978: Cézanne, Les dernières années (1895-1906). Grand Palais, Paris, 1978, no. 29bis (recto only).

2021: Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, plate 48.

2021: Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1936: Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.

1983: Rewald, John. Paul Cezanne: The Watercolors. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (A New York Graphic Society Book), 1983.