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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 463
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1882
Alternate titles: Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Selbstbildnis; Selfportrait; Zelfportret door Paul Cézanne
Rewald (445): c.1882; Venturi revised: c.1880; Venturi (368): 1879–82; Vollard: 1880
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Signed lower right in brown: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 25, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sergei Shchukin, Moscow (May 4, 1906);
First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);
State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);
Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1948)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.1926 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 7.1929–30 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, [Portrait in French art of the late XIX - early XX century], Winter 1929/30.1955 Moscow
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 56.1956a Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 7, ill.1974 Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 49, ill. 1880.1974–75 Moscow
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974–75, no. 45.1987 Lugano
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 14, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, c. 1879-82.1989 Helsinki
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Paintings by French Impressionists from the State Pushkin Museum, 1989, no. 3.1993–94 Essen and traveling
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 27, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 18, ill., (dated c. 1885). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).2006–07 New York and traveling
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 35, fig. 253, pp. 246, 339, as Portrait de l'artiste, shown in New York and Chicago only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.2016–17 Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 136, 438, ill.2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 72, ill. shown in Paris only.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 8.3, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.Published References
Tugendhold 1914
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Collection Shchukin." Apollon, no. 1-2 (January-February 1914), no. 1, ill.Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 19, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même.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. 117.Vollard 1921
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, frontispiece, as Selbstbildnis, dated circa 1880.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. 139.Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 7.Ternovietz 1925
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), ill. p. 468, as Portrait de l'artiste.Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 41, as Selbstbildnis, c. 1880.Museum of Modern Western Art 1928
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 547.Réau 1929
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 729.Ternovietz 1930
Ternovietz, Boris. "Lettre de l'U.R.S.S." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 5 (Mai 1930), p. 22, as portrait de l'artiste.Ternovietz 1934
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. The Museum of Modern Western Art. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1934, pl. XI.Olmenhove 1935
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 6 (no.10), as Zelfportret door Paul Cézanne, 1880.Iavorskaia 1935a
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, frontispiece.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 368, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.Cézanne 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, ill. on cover.Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 23.Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. frontispiece, as Selfportrait, 1880.Cahiers d'Art 1950
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 3, listed p. 338, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, 1880.Cooper 1954b
Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London: Athlone Press, 1954, p. 85, no. 8.Prokofiev 1962
Prokofiev, V.N. French Paintings in the Museums of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Gos. isd-vo izobrazitelʹnogo iskusstva, 1962, pl. 158.Leonhard 1966
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 6, ill.Sedova 1974
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 26, ill.Kuznetsova and Georgievskaia 1979
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 178, ill.Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 131, pl. 16.Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 160, ill.Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 116, ill.Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 191, fig. 1.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. 445, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.Kitschen 1998
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 123.Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 142, 198, fig. 16, as Portrait de l'artiste.Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 128–29, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 109, fig. 38.Lebensztejn 2021
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde (as Seen from Paris)." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.Notes
The American artist Morgan Russell's painted a copy of Cézanne's self-portrait in 1910. See also notes for Cinq pommes, 1877–78 (756).
Morgan Russell, Portrait of Cézanne, 1910. Private collection.
Record last updated January 4, 2019. 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, c.1882 (FWN 463)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=436 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
