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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Wladimir Walter, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (Dec. 1936)
Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (July 1937);
Tine van der Waals-Koenigs, Haarlem
Heinz Berggruen, Paris
E.V. Thaw, New York
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Christie's, New York, Nov. 9, 2015, no. 7A, ill.
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
1938c Amsterdam
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 12.1939e London
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.1964 Paris and traveling
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, 1964.1982 Tübingen and traveling
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, 1982.1985 London
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, Paper, June 4–July 12, 1985, ill., p. 21.1986 Oxford and traveling
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, 1986.1999a New York
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.2010–11 London and traveling
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
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 51, ill. (verso).Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, p. 3, ill. (verso).Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, ill.Album Quatre Chemins 1936a
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Cinq aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris and New York: Quatre chemins and Raymond & Raymond, n.d. [1936], pl. 2.Venturi 1936b
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. 1938
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 1959b
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, p. 102, ill., pl. 8, ill. in color (verso).Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 251, ill. (verso).Sérullaz 1971
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 1973
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 1983a
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.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 141, fig. 122.Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 92-3, ill.Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 264, mentioned.Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 162, fig. 109.Serres et al 2019
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.
Head of a life-size dummy from Cézanne's studio. Private collection, Aix-en-Provence.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
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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 19, 2024).
