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Catalogue entry

FWN 1876
Garçon lisant
c.1885
Alternate titles: Child reading; Die Lektüre; Enfant lisant; La Lecture; Lektüre; Mann am Pult; Reading
Rewald (W187); Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (889): c.1882
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Vollard archives: no. 164
Christie's, London

Keywords

Provenance
Estate of Paul Cézanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (August 6, 1917)
Sally Falk, Mannheim (Aug. 6, 1917)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Private collection);
Suse Paret-Cassirer, Berlin and Menton
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (1935)
Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (January 1936);
Franz Koenigs jr., Amsterdam
Christie's, London, Feb. 8, 2007, no. 517, ill.; bought in
Christie's, London, June 22, 2011, no. 107, ill.
Exhibition History
1907d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, no. 22, as La Lecture.
1907 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, I. Ausstellung, September 30–October 18, 1907, no. 18, as Lektüre.
1908 Dresden
Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Dresden, Germany, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, April–May 1908, no. 17, as Die Lektüre.
1911 New York
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 18, as Reading.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
1914 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 422, as Die Lektüre, [lent by Bernheim-Jeune], for sale.
1914 Dresden
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 115, as Die Lektüre.
1921 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 45, as Mann am Pult, lent by Paul Cassirer pr.
1938c Amsterdam
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 4.
1939e London
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 38, as Child reading, dated 1882, lent by Private collection.
2013–14 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 12, ill. lent by Private collection [Holland].
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 889, ill. vol. II, as Enfant lisant.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 187, ill.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Paul Cézanne, Curt Herrmann, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch: 30. September bis 18. Oktober 1907." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1905-1908. vol. 3, "Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 513, ill.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 412, ill., as La Lecture, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 96.
Record last updated August 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Garçon lisant, c.1885 (FWN 1876)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1167 (accessed on April 26, 2024).