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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 147 and [100], Annotated: circa 1875 [erased]
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Oct. 8, 1910)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Oct. 11, 1910);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Col. and Mrs. Edgar William Garbisch, Boston
Garbisch Collection, Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, May 12, 1980, no. 14, ill.
Private collection
Kasikawa Trading, Japan
Christie's, London, Feb. 4, 2014, no. 43, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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 1913
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 198, ill, as Im Park.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XI p. 38.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 231, ill. vol. II, as La Conversation.
Cheney 1947
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1947, p. 212, ill.
Jedlicka 1948
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 13, as La Conversation.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 71, pl. 20.
Chappuis 1962
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 1965
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, pp. 95–96.
Geist 1975
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 9, ill.
Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 32, pl. 7.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 91, fig. 39.
Rewald 1996
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 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 54, fig. 33.
Machotka 2008
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 2020
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 April 23, 2024).