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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 468
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1883–85
Alternate titles: Frau Cézanne; Madame Cézanne; Portrait; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of his Wife; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne; Portrait of the Artist's Sister; Weibliches Brustbild
Rewald (532): 1883–85; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (526): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
18 5/16 x 15 1/8 in. (46.4 x 38.4 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 102, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1890–95
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
[Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris]
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Dikran K. Kelekian, Paris;
Kelekian Collection, American Art Association, New York, Jan. 30–31, 1922, no. 112, ill.
Lillie P. Bliss, New York;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Lillie P. Bliss Bequest);
The Museum of Modern Art Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 11, 1944, no. 82, ill.
Sam Salz, New York
Louis E. Stern, New York (1944);
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1963)
Exhibition History
1921 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings by Modern French Masters Representing the Post-Impressionists and Their Predecessors, April 1921, no. 24, as Portrait of his Wife, lent by Kelekian.1921c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 13, as Madame Cézanne, lent by anon. [Kelekian].1926 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926, lent by Miss Bliss.1931–32 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 7, ill., as Portrait of the Artist's Sister. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.1934c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 7, ill., p. 25.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 27, (dated 1887–88), as Madame Cézanne, lent by Museum of Modern Art.1935 Saint Louis
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Twenty-Five Paintings from the Collection of Lillie P. Bliss, February–March 1935.1935 Pittsburgh
Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935, no. 10, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne.1935 Northampton
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, French Paintings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, April 23–May 19, 1935, no. 4, as Madame Cézanne.1936–37 Columbus
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Five Major Paintings by Paul Cézanne, December 16, 1936–January 15, 1937.1937 Washington, D.C.
Modern Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1937.1940 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 2.1942 Tulsa
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1942.1944 Richmond
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Nineteenth Century French Painting: Eighth Anniversary Exhibition of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 1–February 20, 1944, no. 30.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 27, ill. lent by Stern.1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 30, ill. lent by Stern.1964 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1964, no. 19, ill., on cover, as Madame Cézanne.1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 34. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.1983 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 12, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 19, 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).2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 14, ill., as Portrait de madame Cezanne. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 6, ill., as Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1885–87. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 5, ill., p. 147, as Portrait de madame Cezanne. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 27, and ill. back cover, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.Published References
Lawton 1911
Lawton, Frederick. "Paul Cézanne." Art Journal, no. 2 (February 1911), p. 60, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Piper & Co. 1912
Paul Cèzanne - Mappe. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, pl. 13, as Weibliches Brustbild.Borgmeyer 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 139, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, Collection Vollard.Stuart 1917
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 337, ill., as Portrait de madame Cezanne, "Collection Vollard".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. 164.Anonymous 1920
Collection Kélékian: tableaux de l'école française moderne. Paris and New York: [s.n.], 1920, pl. 8, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Burroughs 1921
Burroughs, Alan. "Making History of Impressionism." The Arts 1, no. 4 (April 1921), p. 16, ill.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. 196.Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 11, as Portrait.Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 13.Rutter 1926
Rutter, Frank. Evolution in Modern Art. London: George G Harrap & Company Limited, 1926, pl. 5.Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 100.Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 73, as Frau Cézanne, c. 1885 (Photo: Thannhauser).Zervos 1927
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 338, ill.Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXVI.Bertram 1929
Bertram, Anthony. Cézanne. London: Studio, 1929, pl. 4.Pène du Bois 1931
Pène du Bois, Guy. "The Lillie P. Bliss Collection." Arts 17, no. 9 (June 1931), p. 607.Sweeney 1931
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Bliss Collection." Creative Art 8 (May 1931), p. 354, ill.Klein 1934
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 7.Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 34.Larguier 1936
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 31, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 526, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cezanne.Art News 1937f
"Two New Museums Open in New York and Washington." The Art News (1937), p. 9, ill.Lecuyer 1939
Lecuyer, Raymond. "Triomphe 1939 de Paul Cézanne." Le Figaro, supplément littéraire, Janvier 21, 1939, ill. p. 7, as Madame Cézanne.Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 68.Barr 1942
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, no. 91, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne.Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 23, ill.Jewell 1944b
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 126, ill.Reff 1960b
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 118.Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 62, ill. (detail).Philadelphia Museum of Art 1964
The Louis E. Stern Collection. Philadelphia, 1964, no. 19, ill. on cover, as Madame Cézanne.Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 123.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 58, ill.Arrouye 1982a
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 70, ill.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 327.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. 532, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 186; vol. 2, p. 129, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 8, as Portrait de madame Cezanne, dated c. 1886–87.Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 61, as Portrait de madame Cezanne.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 190, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Record last updated July 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1883–85 (FWN 468)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=522 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
