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Catalogue entry

FWN 436
Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose
c.1875
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autoportrait au fond rose; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de peintre; Selbstbildnis; Selbstporträt; Self Portrait; Self-Portrait with a Pink Background; Son Portrait; Zelfportret
Rewald (274): c.1875; Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (286): 1873–76; Rivière: c.1880 (1993); Cooper: 1875–76; Gowing: 1873–74 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
26 x 21 5/8 in. (66 x 55 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris
Private collection, Switzerland
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Philippe Meyer, Paris;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (2007)
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 22, as Portrait de peintre, lent by Pellerin.
1914 London
Grosvenor House, London, Modern French Art, July 1-21, 1914, extended until end of July, no. 2, ill., as Son Portrait, lent by Pellerin.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 47, pl. II, as Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose, lent by Lecomte.
1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 39, ill. lent by Lecomte, catalogued but not exhibited. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 33, pl. XIV, lent by private collection, Paris.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 8, ill., (dated 1873–74), as Autoportrait, lent by Private collection.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 17, pl. 68.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 13, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 5, ill., p. 33, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
2000 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, De Cézanne à Giacometti : une grande donation aux musées de France [donation Philippe Meyer], October 17–November 19, 2000, no. 10, ill.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 1, ill. lent by Private collection (life interest to Orsay). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2007–08 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, L'autre collection: hommage à Ernst et Hildy Beyeler, August 19, 2007–January 6, 2008, listed p. 278, ill. p. 18, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose, 1873-1876.
2010 San Francisco
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Birth of Impressionism - Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, May 22–September 6, 2010, no. 98, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
2010–11 Madrid and traveling
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionismo: un nuevo renacimiento, January 15–April 4, 2010, no. 62, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose. Traveled to: de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, May 22–September 6, 2010; Frist Center of the Visiual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 15, 2010–January 23, 2011.
2012–13 Sao Paulo and traveling
Centro Cutural do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Impressionismo, Paris e a modernida: Obras-primas Musée d'Orsay, August 4–October 7, 2012, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose. Traveled to: Centro Cutural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, October 22, 2012–January 13, 2013; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, February 12–May 5, 2013.
2014 Tokyo
The National Art Center, Japan, Naissance de l'impressionnisme: La liberté de peindre. Collections du musée d'Orsay, July 9–October 20, 2014, no. 69, ill., as Autoportrait au fond rose.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 17, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 5.2, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Pératé 1907
Pératé, André. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 38, periode 3 (November, 1907), p. 385, ill.
Rilke 1907b
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Letter to Clara Rilke dated Paris, Oct. 23, 1907." In Briefe über Cézanne. Wiesbaden: Erschienen im Insel-Verlag, 1952.
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, frontispiece.
Piper & Co. 1912
Paul Cèzanne - Mappe. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, pl. 1, as Selbstbildnis.
Shirakaba 1912b
Shirakaba 3, no. 9 (September 1912), frontispiece, page illiustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 60, fig. 47.
Borgmeyer 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 199, ill., as Self Portrait, Collection Pellerin.
Burger 1913
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 68, as Selbstporträt.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, frontispiece, dated c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 110.
Westheim 1918a
Westheim, Paul. Die Welt als Vorstellung. Potsdam–Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1918, p. 118, ill.
Burger 1919
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 69.
Burger 1920
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1920, pl. 69.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 131, as Selbstbildnis, 1879.
Burger 1923
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 68.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, frontispiece.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXI.
Brandt 1929
Brandt, Paul. Sehen und Erkennen. Leipzig: A. Kröner, 1929, p. 370, fig. 665.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), frontispiece (July).
Block 1931
Block, Olga. "Paul Cezanne, de meester der kleuren [Paul Cezanne, the master of colours]." Amersfoortsch Dagblad: De Eemlander (Amsterdam), October 31, 1931, ill. p. 15 (detail), as Zelfportret.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 73, ill.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 28.
Tourrette 1936
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 331, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose, dated circa 1875.
Huyghe 1936b
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 59 p. 176, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1880.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 286, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Huyghe 1936c
Huyghe, René. "L'Exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Bulletin des musées de France 8, no. 6 (June 1936), p. 91, ill.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 23.
Rilke 1938
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Dichter über Kunstwerke, die sie lieben: Rainer Maria Rilke über zwei Bilder von Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 54, no. 1 (October 1938), pp. 31-32, ill., as Selbstbildnis.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 81, p. 204, ill. (analysis p. 339).
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 75, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 44, listed p. 150.
Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pl. 18.
Rilke 1952
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Briefe über Cézanne. Wiesbaden: Insel, 1952.
Storey 1952
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 195, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], ill., cover.
Guerry 1966
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 18.
Leonhard 1966
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 143, ill.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 10.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 15, fig. 14.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 2, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 52, ill.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 84, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 76, ill.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 44.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 72.
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. 274, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Kitschen 1998
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 122.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 173, fig. 107.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 86, 196, fig. 6, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Cahn 2004
Cahn, Isabelle. "Chronology." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 148, ill. in color.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 118; vol. 2, p. 92, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Chardeau-Botteri 2017
Chardeau-Botteri, Stéphanie. "Cézanne et Guillaumin." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 68, ill.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 222, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, frontispiece.
Notes

Some scholars have seen a stylistic and compositional connection with Camille Pissarro's self-portrait of 1873 (Musée d'Orsay) and his portrait of Cézanne from 1874 (on loan to National Gallery, London).  Cézanne's pose in his self-portrait also resembles an etching of the artist by Pissarro from the same year.  The copperplate is illustrated in Rewald (1996), p. 186, showing the etching in reverse.

Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose, c.1875 (FWN 436). Camille Pissarro, Portrait de Paul Cézanne, 1874. National Gallery, London (On loan from Laurence Graff OBE)
Camille Pissarro, Portrait de Paul Cézanne, 1874. National Gallery, London (On loan from Laurence Graff OBE)
Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose, c.1875 (FWN 436). Camille Pissarro, Self-portrait, 1873. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Camille Pissarro, Self-portrait, 1873. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose, c.1875 (FWN 436)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=275 (accessed on March 29, 2024).