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 463
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1882
Alternate titles: Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Selbstbildnis; Selfportrait; Zelfportret door Paul Cézanne
Rewald (445): c.1882; Venturi revised: c.1880; Venturi (368): 1879–82; Vollard: 1880
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Signed lower right in brown: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 25, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, [Portrait in French art of the late XIX - early XX century], Winter 1929/30.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 56.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 7, ill.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 49, ill. 1880.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974–75, no. 45.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 14, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, c. 1879-82.
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Paintings by French Impressionists from the State Pushkin Museum, 1989, no. 3.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 27, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 18, ill., (dated c. 1885). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 35, fig. 253, pp. 246, 339, as Portrait de l'artiste, shown in New York and Chicago only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 136, 438, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 72, ill. shown in Paris only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 8.3, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Collection Shchukin." Apollon, no. 1-2 (January-February 1914), no. 1, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 19, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 117.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, frontispiece, as Selbstbildnis, dated circa 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 139.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), ill. p. 468, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 41, as Selbstbildnis, c. 1880.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 547.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 729.
Ternovietz, Boris. "Lettre de l'U.R.S.S." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 5 (Mai 1930), p. 22, as portrait de l'artiste.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. The Museum of Modern Western Art. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1934, pl. XI.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 6 (no.10), as Zelfportret door Paul Cézanne, 1880.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 368, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, ill. on cover.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. frontispiece, as Selfportrait, 1880.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 3, listed p. 338, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, 1880.
Prokofiev, V.N. French Paintings in the Museums of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Gos. isd-vo izobrazitelʹnogo iskusstva, 1962, pl. 158.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 6, ill.
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 26, ill.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 178, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 131, pl. 16.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 160, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 191, fig. 1.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 445, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 123.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 142, 198, fig. 16, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 128–29, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 109, fig. 38.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde (as Seen from Paris)." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.
Notes
The American artist Morgan Russell's painted a copy of Cézanne's self-portrait in 1910. See also notes for Cinq pommes, 1877–78 (756).
Morgan Russell, Portrait of Cézanne, 1910. Private collection.
Record last updated January 4, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste, c.1882 (FWN 463)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=436 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
