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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 459
Portrait du fils de l'artiste
1881–82
Alternate titles: Portrait de son fils Paul; Tête du petit Paul
Rewald (467): 1881–82; Venturi revised: c.1883; Venturi (1522): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
11 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (29 x 32 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3784, huile; esquisse de tete d'enfant, 29 x 32 cm (25 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Katia Granoff, Paris
Tajan, Paris, June 23, 1993, no. 51, ill.
Private collection, France
Tajan, Paris, Dec. 21, 2000, no 29, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Private collection, Germany
Private collection
Exhibition History
1949a Paris
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, L'Enfance, September 1949, no. 48, ill., as Portrait de son fils Paul, lent by Katia Granoff.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, hors catalogue, exhibited in London only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 38, ill. Private collection, Derbyshire, UK; shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1522, ill. vol. II, as Tête du petit Paul.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. 467, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.Hauptman and Friedman 2021
Hauptman, Jodi, and Samantha Friedman (eds.). Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 246 (see p. 199 for proposed reconstruction of canvas with FWN 747 and 775).
Proposed reconstruction – see MoMA 2021, p. 199
Record last updated June 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait du fils de l'artiste, 1881–82 (FWN 459)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=457 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
