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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 481
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1885–86
Alternate titles: Head of a Woman; Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Study: Madame Cézanne; Tête de femme
Rewald (582): c.1888; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (525): 1885–87; Rivière: 1880
Oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 18 in. (55.6 x 45.7 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7147, esquisse. tête de femme, 55 x 46 cm
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York
Vladimir Horowitz, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York;
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978)
Exhibition History
1933a New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, February 21–March 15, 1933, no. 2, as Tête de femme.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 34, (dated c. 1890–91), as Head of a Woman, lent by Harriman Gallery.1935 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Opening Exhibition (Modern French Painting), 1935, no. 1, (dated 1890–91), lent by Marie Harriman Gallery.1936d New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 5, as Study: Madame Cézanne.1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 22, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 12, (dated 1885–87), as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.1940 Lynchburg
Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, Modern French Paintings, 1940, no. 1.1940 Oberlin
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, Modern Paintings, 1940.1941c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Techniques of Painting, August 4–October 15, 1941.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 38, lent by Horowitz.1963b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 18, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2008 Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 25, ill. p. 273, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1885-87, lent by Guggenheim Museum.2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 23, as Madame Cézanne, lent by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 221, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 525, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Cincinnati Art Museum News 1947
"Museum Acquires the Portrait of Madame Cézanne." Cincinnati Art Museum News n, no. 7 (November 1947).Barnett 1978
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978, no. 5, p. 32, ill.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. 582, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 76, fig. 28, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, dated c. 1885–87.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 132, fig. 42.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 44.Fontanella 2018
Fontanella, Megan et al. Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, pp. 62-65, no. 6, ill. and fig. 6.4 (photomacrograph of lip area), as Madame Cézanne.Record last updated June 21, 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, 1885–86 (FWN 481)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=569 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
