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Catalogue entry

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)
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (G 1159)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gustave Geffroy, Paris (Apr. 15, 1896)
(Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris?)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf
Baron Eduard Von der Heydt, Ascona;
Von der Heydt Museum (1964), Wuppertal
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. 148, as Knabenkopf, lent by Flechtheim.
1912a Munich
Hans Goltz, Munich, Neue Kunst, Erste Gesamt-Ausstellung, October 1912, no. 8, as Bildnis seines Sohnes, tentative identification, lent by Flechtheim?
1936 Basel
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.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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).
2008 Wuppertal
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.
2012 Cologne
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 1912
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 481, as Bildnisskizze seines Sohnes, Private collection, Düsseldorf.
Venturi 1936b
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 1977
Aust, Günter. Das Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal. Rechlinghausen: A. Bongers, 1977, p. 282, pl. 187.
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. 534, ill. vol. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Machotka 2008
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 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 148, 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 Esquisse d'un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Illner 2013
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 18, 2024).