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)
FWN 1782
Portait de Vallier de profil
1906
Alternate titles: Portrait de Vallier; Portrait of Vallier
Rewald (W641); Venturi revised: 1906; Venturi (1102): 1906; Rivière: 1906
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 7/8 x 12 9/16 in. (48 x 32 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 995, as Portrait de Vallier, lent by Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 794.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 18, as Portrait of Vallier, lent from a French Collection.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, The Private Collection of Mr. T. Edward Hanley, 1937, ill., (on the announcement of exhibition).
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 31, as Portrait de Vallier.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 126, ill., as Portrait of Vallier, 1906, lent by mr. T. E. Hanley, Bradford, Pa. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paintings and Drawing from the Hanley Collection, 1961, no. 44, ill.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [unknown title], 1962.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 69, pl. LXVII, as Portrait de Vallier, 1906, lent by T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pa.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 63, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 122, ill., pl. 27, as Portrait of Vallier, 1906, lent by Private collection, Chicago. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 45, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 230, Private collection.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, ill. opp. p. 169, as Portrait de Vallier.
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 5.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1102, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Vallier.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 11; sect. 2, p. 16.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 140.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 32.
Moskowitz, Ira and Thorson, Victoria. Great drawings of all time. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962, Vol. III, pl. 820.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, ill. on reverse of pl. 48.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 641, ill. and color pl. 50.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 511, fig. 2, as Portait de Vallier de profil, 1906.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 11; vol. 2, p. 24, as Portait de Vallier de profil.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 167, fig. 114.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 250, fig. 73.
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. 87.
Notes
This work may have been one of Cezanne's last three watercolors. The other two were [La Bouteille de cognac, 1906 (1988)] and [Le Cabanon de Jourdan, 1906 (1521)] (see Rivière, 1923, p. 225).
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Record last updated October 10, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portait de Vallier de profil, 1906 (FWN 1782)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1624 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
