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Catalogue entry

FWN 3008-40a
Autoportrait
1880–82
Alternate titles: Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Selbstbildnis Cézannes; Self-portrait; Tête de Paul Cézanne; Zelfportret
Chappuis (614); Venturi (1293)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XL from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (12.4 x 21.8 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va. (1966);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1985)
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 157, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1885-90, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
1986 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
1999 Washington
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Washington, An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, November 7, 1999–February 27, 2000.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 25, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1293, ill. vol. II, as "Page XL".
Rewald 1937b
Rewald, John. "Un épisode inconnu de la vie de Cézanne." Paris. Marianne: grand hebdomadaire littéraire illustré (October 20, 1937), p. 8, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, c. 1880.
Chappuis 1938
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 1, ill., as Tête de Paul Cézanne.
Rewald 1938b
Rewald, John. "Eine unbekannte Episode aus dem Leben Cézannes." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Erste Sonntagausgabe, no. 218, Febr. 6, 1938, [p. 1], ill., as Selbstbildnis Cézannes, c. 1880.
Anonymous 1939
Anonymous. "Pour le centième anniversaire de la naissance de Cézanne." L'Oeuvre (Paris), January 8, 1967, ill. p. 7, as Cézanne par lui-même.
Anonymous 1939b
Anonymous. "Paul Cézanne." De Maasbode (Rotterdam), July 5, 1939, ill. p. 5 (tweede blad), as Zelfportret.
Perruchot 1956
Perruchot, Henri. La vie de Cézanne. Paris: Hachette, 1956, p. 398, ill.
Chappuis 1957
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Cézanne. Lausanne: 1957, pp. 85-86, no. 30, pl. 30.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 19, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 614, ill., as Self-portrait.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 113, ill., as Autoportrait, 188-82.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 131.
Coutagne 1984
Coutagne, Denis. "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 40.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 204, no. 16, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 191; vol. 2, p. 131, as Self-portrait.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 276, ill.
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. "Autoportrait, 1880–82 (FWN 3008-40a), p. XL from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2283 (accessed on April 19, 2024).