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Catalogue entry

FWN 420
Garçon accoudé
1867–68
Alternate titles: Enfant à la veste bleue; Enfant accoudé; Garçon en blouse bleue; Knabe; Knabe in blauer Bluse; Knaben mit dem aufgestützten Kopf; Knabenbildnis; La pensée
Rewald (135): 1867–68; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (109): 1868–70; Rivière: 1874
Oil on canvas
22 13/16 x 19 11/16 in. (58 x 50 cm)
Private collection, Geneva

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (November 26, 1910)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (November 26, 1910)
Fritz Meier-Fierz, Zurich
[Galerie Tanner, Zurich]
Josef Müller, Solothurn;
Private collection, Geneva
Exhibition History
1901a Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, January 20–February 20, 1901, no. ?, as Enfant à la veste bleue.
1911a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, V. Ausstellung, January 5–19, 1911, no. 6, as Knabe in blauer Bluse.
1911b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, VIII. Ausstellung, March 1911, no. 6, as Knabenbildnis.
1912 Vienna
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11, Vienna, Französische Meister, January 19–February 1912, no. 17, as Knabenbildnis.
1913a Vienna
Galerie Miethke, Vienna, Die Neue Kunst, January 8–February 9, 1913, no. 22, as Knabenbildnis.
1914 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Aus Zürcher Privatsammlungen, November 1, 1914, no. 25, as Knabe (tentative identification).
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 4, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Joseph Müller.
1950 Solothurn
Kunstverein, Solothurn, Switzerland, Hundert Jahre Malerei aus Solothurne Privatbesitz, September 23–November 26, 1950, no. 55, ill., as Garçon en blouse bleue, lent by Muller.
1955 Winterthur
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 26, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Josef Müller, Solothurn.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 6, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 4, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Private collection.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 9, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1999 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 4, ill.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 3, ill., (dated 1866), as Garçon accoudé.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 77, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Béral 1901
Béral, Jean. "Impressionnistes: Cézanne." Art et Littérature, no. 1 (February 5, 1901), p. 7, as Enfant à la veste bleue.
Braun 1911
Braun, Felix. "Salon Cassirer." National-Zeitung (Berlin), March 4,1911, No. 54.
Pietsch 1911
Pietsch, Ludwig. "Der Tod von Uhdes." Vossische Zeitung (Berlin), March 5,1911, No. 109.
Stern 1912
Stern, Friederich. "Feuilleton: Kunstdämmerung." Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe) (January 26, 1912), p. 2, as Knabenbildnis.
A.F.S. 1913
A.F.S. "Die Neue Kunst." Neue Freie Presse (Wien) (January 15, 1913), p. 11, as Studienkopf.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 46.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 104.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 10.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 123, as Knaben mit dem aufgestützten Kopf, c. 1872.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. oppositep. 116, ill.
Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opposite p. 70.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XVII.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 115, ill.
Sterling 1936
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), pp. 10 et 14, fig. 6, as Enfant accoudé.
Huyghe 1936b
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 38 p. 166, as Enfant accoudé, c. 1870.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 109, ill. vol. II, as Garçon accoudé.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 4.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 17, listed.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 4, as Garçon accoudé, 1867-69.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 29, 134.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 330.
Rewald 1996
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. 135, ill. vol. 2, as Garçon accoudé.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016a
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen von Paul Cézanne, Ferdinand Hodler, Leopold Kalckreuth […]: März 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 246, 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. 191, ill., as La pensée.
Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Garçon accoudé, 1867–68 (FWN 420)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=145 (accessed on March 29, 2024).