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 620
La Conversation
1872–73
Alternate titles: Im Park; Paysage avec deux personnages
Rewald (235): 1872–73; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (231): 1872–73; Vollard: 1875
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 20 7/8 in. (44.5 x 53.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3684, huile; dans un paysage une femme assise dans un fauteuil près duquel se tient debout un jeune homme, par terre un chien, 44 x 53 cm (150 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibition History
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 7, ill. lent by private collection. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 48, ill., as La Conversation, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Published References
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 198, ill, as Im Park.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 231, ill. vol. II, as La Conversation.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 13, as La Conversation.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 87, fig. 51.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, pp. 95–96.
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 9, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 32, pl. 7.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 91, fig. 39.
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. 235, ill. vol. 2, as La Conversation.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 54, fig. 33.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 72; vol. 2, p. 70, as La Conversation.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 162, ill., as Paysage avec deux personnages.
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Record last updated April 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Conversation, 1872–73 (FWN 620)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=239 (accessed on July 12, 2025).
