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Catalogue entry

FWN 467
Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne
c.1883
Alternate titles: Bildnis seiner Frau; Bildnisskizze seiner Frau; Esquisse pour un portrait de Madame Cézanne; Frauenkopf; Head of a Woman; Kopf Frau Cézanne; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait Madame Cézanne; Porträt Madame Cézanne ( Porträt Hortense)
Rewald (533): c.1883; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (533): 1883–85; Gowing: c.1881 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.3 x 14 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3991, Tête de femme, 22 x 14 (25 Fr)
Richard Gray, Chicago

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gustave Geffroy, Paris (Apr. 15, 1896)
(Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris?)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (by 1912)
Hugo Simon, Berlin;
Dr. S[imon] Collection, Galerie Paul Cassirer [auction house], Berlin, Oct. 20, 1932, no. 114, ill.
Eugen Weissner, Hamburg
Eric Alport, Oxford;
Estate of Eric Alport;
Christie's, London, June 29, 1999, no. 1, ill.
Richard Gray, Chicago
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Geffroy buys.
1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 149, as Frauenkopf, lent by Flechtheim.
1912a Munich
Hans Goltz, Munich, Neue Kunst, Erste Gesamt-Ausstellung, October 1912, no. 8a, as Bildnis seiner Frau, tentative identification, lent by Flechtheim?
1913 Düsseldorf
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, Eröffnungskatalog, 1913, no number, ill., p. 58, as Bildnis seiner Frau.
1921 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 23, as Kopf Frau Cézanne, lent by Flechtheim.
1942–43 London
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 29, as Head of a Woman, c. 1885, lent by Mrs. V. Alport.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 28, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, c. 1881, lent by anonymous. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
1963a London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April 24–May 18, 1963, no. 23, ill. lent by Private collection.
2010–11 Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, September 25, 2010–January 2, 2011, no. 72, ill., as Portrait Madame Cézanne, with comments by Gloria Groom.
2012 Cologne
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1912, Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–December 30, 2012, no. 18, ill., pp. 340–41, as Porträt Madame Cézanne ( Porträt Hortense), lent by Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 39, ill. Private collection; shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Royère 1912
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 481, as Bildnisskizze seiner Frau, Private collection, Düsseldorf.
Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, frontispiece, ill. ill. in color.
M.E. 1932
M.E. "Berliner Auktionen." Kunst und Künstler 31, no. 11 (1932), p. 432, ill. p. 424.
Hazama, Adachi, and Nakogawa, eds. 1935
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 2, pl. 4.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 533, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de 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. 122.
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. 533, ill. vol. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne.
Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 139, fig. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne.
Helin 2001
Helin, Saskia. "Cézanne in Hamburg." In Private Schätze: über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933. Hamburg: Christians, 2001, pp. 44-45, ill., as Portrait Madame Cézanne, 1883-85.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 188; vol. 2, p. 129, as Esquisse pour un portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Schaefer 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 149, p. 556.
Dascher 2013
Dascher, Ottfried. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst" : Alfred Flechtheim - Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. vol. 6, Quellenstudien zur Kunst: eine Schriftenreihe der International Music and Art Foundation, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ed. [Wädenswil]: Nimbus, 2013, listed p. 420, ill. p. 63, as Frauenkopf.
Record last updated February 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne, c.1883 (FWN 467)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=523 (accessed on April 25, 2024).