The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 1781
Portrait de Vallier
c.1906
Alternate titles: Der Gärtner Vallier (Le jardinier Vallier); Le jardinier Vallier; Portrait du jardinier Vallier; Portrait of the Gardener Vallier; Portrait of Vallier
Rewald (W640); Venturi revised: 1906; Venturi (1566): 1902–06; Ratcliffe: 1902–06; Chappuis: 1902–06
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. (48 x 31.5 cm)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Berggruen Family
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 71, as Portrait of Vallier, c. 1904-1906, lent by Sir Victor Schuster.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 35, as Portrait de Vallier, 1902-6, lent by Captain Edward Molyneux.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 82, pl. 46, c. 1900-1906.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 39, ill., pl.23, as Le jardinier Vallier, 1902-1906, lent by Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 70, pl. LXVI, as Portrait de Vallier, 1906, lent by Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Documenta III, Internationale Ausstellung, Handzeichnungen, June 27–October 5, 1964, no. 3, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 21, as Portrait de Vallier, 1906, coll. Contemporary Art Establishment, Zurich.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 97, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: pp. 169-170, as Portrait of Vallier, lent by the Contemporary Art Establishment. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 87, ill., as Le jardinier Vallier, c.1906, lent by Art Establishment, Zurich. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 103, ill., as Der Gärtner Vallier (Le jardinier Vallier), 1906, lent by Private collection, Switzerland. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 12, ill.
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 8, ill., as Portrait du jardinier Vallier, c. 1906.
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 25, ill., as Portrait of the Gardener Vallier.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 226, ill. in color, p. 514, as Portrait du jardinier Vallier, 1906, lent by The Berggruen Collection, shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen, 1996–2000, no. 6, ill., p. 45.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 46, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 37, ill., as Portrait de Vallier, c. 1906, lent by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; shown in Zurich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 27, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 228, Museum Berggruen, Berlin.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1566, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Vallier.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 43, no. 29, ill. (dated c. 1902-06), Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Cézanne: quinze aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Daniel Jacomet, 1971, pl. 14, as Portrait de Vallier, c. 1902-06.
Cézanne. Liège: Musée Saint-Georges, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 640, ill. and color pl. 51.
Bourges, Marianne R. Le jardin de Cézanne: l'époque des Lauves. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 1984, ill. in color p. 19, as Le jardinier Vallier.
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. 93, ill. in b/w.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 172, ill.
Vuillemin, Madeleine. "Versuche über Cézannes späte Aquarelle." University of Zurich, 1989, pl. X.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 377; vol. 2, p. 238, as Portrait de Vallier.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 145, fig. 103.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 623, no. 1485, ill. in color, as Portrait du jardinier Vallier, 1906.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 376, ill.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen. Berlin: Nicolai, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 28-29, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 166, fig. 113.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 245, fig. 71.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 317, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 86.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 417, ill., as Portrait de Vallier, Collection Contemporary Art Establishment.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 21.
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Record last updated July 17, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Vallier, c.1906 (FWN 1781)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1623 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
