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Catalogue entry

FWN 1778
Femme assise
1902–04
Alternate titles: Madame Cezanne; Portrait de femme; Seated Woman (Madame Cézanne); Sitzende Frau; Sitzende Frau (Femme assise); Sitzende Frau (Madame Cézanne)
Rewald (W543); Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (1093): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 7/8 x 14 3/16 in. (48 x 36 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1627, femme assise; aquarelle, 49 x 37 (3,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 194
Judy and Michael Steinhardt, New York

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Adams Gallery, London
Private collection, London
Paul Rosenberg, New York
Robert von Hirsch, Basel;
Von Hirsch Collection, Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1978, no. 840, ill.
Jan Krugier, Geneva;
Sotheby's, London, Feb. 5, 2014, no. 11, ill.
Judy and Michael Steinhardt, New York (2014)
Exhibition History
1946c London and traveling
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 25, as Madame Cezanne, 1895-1900, lent by Adams Brothers. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 101, ill., as Sitzende Frau (Femme assise), 1902-04, lent by Gallery Jan Krugier, Geneva. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
1983 Geneva
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier: dix ans d'activité (1972-1982), 1983, no. 17, ill., as Femme assise.
1989 Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 6, ill., as Femme assise, c. 1902-1904.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 169, ill. in color, p. 405, as Femme assise, c. 1895, lent by Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier Poniatowski, 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 Berlin
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin & Prüssischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, May 29–August 1, 1999, no. 122, ill., as Sitzende Frau.
2005 Vienna
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, April 8–August 28, 2005, no. 95, ill., as Sitzende Frau (Madame Cézanne).
2007b Munich
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July 20–October 7, 2007, no. 125, ill., as Sitzende Frau, c. 1902/04.
2012 Vienna
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 31, ill., as Sitzende Frau (Madame Cézanne), c. 1902-1904, lent by Jan Krugier.
2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 49, as Seated Woman (Madame Cézanne), lent by Judy and Michael Steinhardt Collection, New York.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 223, Anonymous, New York.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 125, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1093, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de femme.
Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 25, no. 14, ill. (dated 1895-1900), Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 21.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 543, ill.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, fig. 36, as Seated Woman (Madame Cézanne), c. 1902-04.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 372; vol. 2, p. 238, as Femme assise.
Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pp. 201-211, ill. p. 202.
Shelley 2014
Shelley, Marjorie. "Cézanne as Draftsman." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 45.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 165, fig. 112.

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Record last updated October 14, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Femme assise, 1902–04 (FWN 1778)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1525 (accessed on April 26, 2024).