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Catalogue entry

FWN 1743
Madame Cezanne aux hortensias
c.1885
Alternate titles: Frau Cézanne schlafend; Hortensia; Hortensienblüte und Bildnis Hortense Cézanne (Hortensia avec portrait de Hortense Cézanne); L'Hortensia; Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet) aux hortensias; Madame Cézanne dormant; Madame Cezanne et hortensia; Madame Cézanne with Hortensias; Madame Cezanne with Hydrangeas; Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten; The Hortensia
Rewald (W209); Venturi revised: c.1893; Venturi (1100): 1883–87
Graphite and watercolor on paper
MBM watermark (Morel, Berciaux und Masure)
12 1/2 x 19 in. (31.8 x 48.3 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 101
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Estate of Paul Cézanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
Charles Vignier, Paris (June 20, 1917)
Charles Gillet, Lyon
Heinz Berggruen, Paris (1974)
Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1976)
Private collection
Exhibition History
1911 New York
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 19, as Hortensia.
1913 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 16, as L'Hortensia, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 17, as The Hortensia.
1929 Munich
Graphisches Cabinet J. B. Neumann, Munich, Französische Graphik von Ingres bis Picasso, Summer 1929, no. 13, as Frau Cézanne schlafend.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 68, ill., as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 51, ill. p. 146-47, as Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten, 1882-1885, lent by Private collection.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 85, ill., as Hortensienblüte und Bildnis Hortense Cézanne (Hortensia avec portrait de Hortense Cézanne), 1882-86, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 101, ill. in color, p. 275, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Privat collection, shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 8, ill., as Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet) aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2001 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, January 28–April 22, 2001, pl. 20, as Madame Cezanne with Hydrangeas, Private collection.
2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 42, as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias (catalogued but not exhibited).
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 54, ill.
Published References
Chamberlin 1911
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. "Cézanne Embryos." New York Evening Mail, March 8, 1911, p. 9.
Wright 1916b
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Borély 1926
Borély, Jules. "Cézanne à Aix [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 492, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1100, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne dormant.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 66, "Present location unknown"!
Geist 1978
Geist, Sidney. "What Makes 'The Black Clock' Run." Art International 22, no. 2 (February 1978), p. 10, ill.
Adriani 1978b
Adriani, Götz. "Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 - Das zeichnerische Werk." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim 12 (1978), p. 728, ill., as Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 209, ill. and color pl. 22.
Wetzel 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, ill. (cropped).
Elderfield 1985
Elderfield, John. "Cézanne: The Lesson of the Master." Review of Paul Cézanne; The Watercolors, by John Rewald. Art in America 73, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 89, ill.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 152, ill. in color.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 88, pl. VIII.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 100, fig. 82.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 56-7, ill.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, pp. 238–39, fig. 147.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 30, fig. 13, as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias.
Feilchenfeldt 2005d
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 224, ill.
Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 17, p. 169-70, 193, 203-4, fig. 17.
Houssais 2011
Houssais, Laurent. Cézanne année après année. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2011, p. 206-07, ill.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 609, no. 1454, ill. in color p. 608, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, 1882-1886.
Cézanne 2013
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 35, ill.
Duverget 2013
Duverget, Chantal. "Madame Cézanne, de Franche-Comté." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 120, fig. 2, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias.
Prat 2013
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin Français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2013, no. 1454, ill. p. 608.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 147, fig. 94.
Nagaï 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 107, ill.
Ruppen 2017a
Ruppen, Fabienne. "On Margins and Versos: The Hidden Interrelationships Among Cézanne's Works on Paper." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 67, 1885.
Lloyd 2019
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 93, ill., as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 284, ill., as Madame Cezanne et hortensia.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 142.
Friedman 2021
Friedman, Samantha. "Condensation: Cézanne's Study Sheets." In Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 8.

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Record last updated March 1, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c.1885 (FWN 1743)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1189 (accessed on April 25, 2024).