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)
FWN 469
Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste
1883–85
Alternate titles: Bildnis des Sohnes; Bildnis des Sohnes Paul; Bildnis seines Sohnes; Bildnisskizze seines Sohnes; Knabenkopf; Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste
Rewald (534): 1883–85; Venturi revised: c.1885; Venturi (536): 1883–85
Oil on canvas
7 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (19.5 x 11.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 148, as Knabenkopf, lent by Flechtheim.
Hans Goltz, Munich, Neue Kunst, Erste Gesamt-Ausstellung, October 1912, no. 8, as Bildnis seines Sohnes, tentative identification, lent by Flechtheim?
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 39, as Bildnis des Sohnes, 1885, lent by Baron E. von der Heydt, Zandvoort.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 53, ill., as Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 4, ill., as Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany, Der expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals großen Privatsammlungen, February 24–May 18, 2008, n.n., p. 167, ill., as Bildnis des Sohnes Paul, 1884/86.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1912, Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–December 30, 2012, no. 19, ill., pp. 342–43, as Bildnis des Sohnes Paul, lent by Von der Heydt Museum.
Published References
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 481, as Bildnisskizze seines Sohnes, Private collection, Düsseldorf.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 536, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Aust, Günter. Das Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal. Rechlinghausen: A. Bongers, 1977, p. 282, pl. 187.
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. 534, ill. vol. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 181; vol. 2, p. 128, as Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 148, p. 556.
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 Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Illner, Eberhard, ed. Eduard von der Heydt: Kunstsammler Bankier Mäzen. München and London and New York: Prestel, 2013, p. 97, ill. in color.
Record last updated December 15, 2020. 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 du fils de l'artiste, 1883–85 (FWN 469)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=524 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
