The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1767
L'Homme à la pipe
1892–96
Alternate titles: Etude pour un joueur de cartes; Man with a Pipe (Study for The Card Players); Männerkopf (Studie zu dem Bilde "Die Kartenspieler"); Pere Alexandre; Studie voor een der Kaartspelers; Studie zu einem Kartenspieler (Etude pour un joueur de cartes); Study for a card player; Un joueur de cartes
Rewald (W378); Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (1088): 1890–92
Watercolor on laid paper
20 1/16 x 12 9/16 in. (51 x 32 cm)
Private collection, Qatar
Provenance
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 12.
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 27, as Study for a card player, dated 1890-92, lent by Private collection.
Institut néerlandais, Paris, Le dessin français de Claude à Cézanne dans les collections hollandaises complété d'un choix d'autographes des artistes exposés, May 4–June 14, 1964, no. 203, pl. 166 Album des planches, as Un joueur de cartes, lent by M. et Mme. van der Waals-Koenigs, Heemstede. Traveled to: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 25–August 16, 1964.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 98, ill., as Studie zu einem Kartenspieler (Etude pour un joueur de cartes), c. 1892, lent by Private collection, Switzerland. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 12, pl. 7. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 36, ill. lent by Private collection, courtesy of Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 16, ill., as Man with a Pipe (Study for The Card Players), lent by Private collection, courtesy of Thomas Gibson Fine Art; shown in London only. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Published References
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Cinq aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris and New York: Quatre chemins and Raymond & Raymond, n.d. [1936], pl. 2.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1088, ill. vol. II, as Etude pour un joueur de cartes.
v.D. "Fransche meesters uit de 19de eeuw. Teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels bij Paul Cassirer & Co. te Amsterdam." Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam), July 26, 1938, p. 9 mentioned, as Studie voor een der Kaartspelers.
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, p. 102, ill., pl. 8, ill. in color (verso).
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 251, ill. (verso).
Sérullaz, Maurice. Cézanne: quinze aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Daniel Jacomet, 1971, pl. 7, as Etude pour un joueur de cartes, c. 1890-92.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, cited under no. 1095 (verso), as Pere Alexandre (verso).
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 378, ill. and color pl. 8, as L'Homme à la pipe.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 162, fig. 109.
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 219, fig. 79.
Record last updated October 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme à la pipe, 1892–96 (FWN 1767)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1359 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
