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Catalogue entry

FWN 447
Madame Cezanne à l'éventail
begun c. 1879; reworked 1886–88
Alternate titles: Die Frau des Künstlers im Sessel; La Dame à l'éventail; La dame à l'éventail (Portrait de Mme Cézanne); La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail); Madame Cézanne à l'éventail; Madame Cézanne mit dem Fächer; Madame Cézanne with a Fan; Mme Cézanne auf rotem Sessel; Portrait de femme; Portrait of the Artist's Wife; The Artist's Wife in an Armchair
Rewald (606): begun 1878; reworked 1886–88; Venturi revised: 1879–80; Venturi (369): 1879–82; Cooper: 1879; Gowing: related to No. 421, 1879–80; Ratcliffe: probably 1879
Oil on canvas
36 3/8 x 28 11/16 in. (92.5 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4165, portrait de Madame Cezanne, 92 x 73 cm
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4061, Femme à l'éventail assise dans fauteuil rouge, 92 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 606, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1877
Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (Dec. 16, 1904);
Gertrude Stein, Paris (c. 1913)
César M. De Hauke, Paris (by Jan. 1944)
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Emil Georg Bührle, Zurich (June 16, 1952);
Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich (1960);
Exhibition History
1904 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Mme Cézanne auf rotem Sessel.
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 9, as La Dame à l'éventail, lent by Vollard.
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 40, as Portrait de femme, lent by L.D. Stein.
1958 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, June 8–September 30, 1958, no. 223, pl. XIII.
1958 Berlin
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Zürich, October 5–November 23, 1958, no. 52, ill. in color, as Die Frau des Künstlers im Sessel, c. 1880.
1958–59 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Hauptwerke der Sammlung E.G. Bührle, December 1958–February 1959, no. 18.
1959 Paris
Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 16, pl. 33.
1961 Edinburgh and traveling
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection, August 19–September 17, 1961, no. 32, ill., pl. 14b, shown only in London. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, 1961.
1964 Lausanne
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 89, ill., as La dame à l'éventail (Portrait de Mme Cézanne), 1879-1882, lent by Foundation E. G. Bührle, Zurich.
1990 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zürich, May 6–July 15, 1990, no. 39, ill., (dated c. 1878), as The Artist's Wife in an Armchair, lent by Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, August 3–October 14, 1990; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 2, 1990–January 13, 1991; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 1–April 9, 1991.
2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. p. 34, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail (not shown).
2011–12a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 119, ill., as La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail), 1878-1888, lent by Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich; shown in Paris only.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 86, ill. lent by Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle, Zurich.
Published References
Pach 1914
Pach, Walter. "The Point of View of the 'Moderns.'" Century Magazine 87, no. 6 (April 1914), p. 862, ill.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Gasquet 1928
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 7], as La Dame à l'éventail.
Stein 1933
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933, (quoted above).
Stein 1934
Stein, Gertrude. "L'atelier de Gertrude Stein." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 11, periode 6 (April 1934), fig. 4, p. 237, appears in photograph of Gertrude Stein's studio.
Vollard 1936
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, p. 137.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 369, ill. vol. II, as La Dame à l'éventail.
Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 17.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 55, ill.
Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 5.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 105.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 15.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 28, fig. 23.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 14, ill.
Mellow 1974
Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York: Praeger, 1974, p. 91.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 39.
Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 63, ill. in color.
Wetzel 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 38, ill. in color.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 38, ill.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 63, 72, 94, fig. 59, and pl. V.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 100, fig. 81.
Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 93, 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. 606, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 234, fig. 142.
Gloor and Goldin 2004
Gloor, Lukas and Marco Goldin, eds. Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bühle Zürich, Katalog III. Conegliano and Zurich: Linea d'ombra Libri and Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, 2004, pl. 112.
Feilchenfeldt 2005b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 177, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 248; vol. 2, p. 167, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Cowling 2009
Cowling, Elizabeth. "'Le drame de l'homme.' Le Cézannisme de Picasso en 1906–08." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 5, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 5, fig. 2, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail, dated c. 1879–82, possibly reworked 1886–88.
Dachy 2011
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), pp. 17et 20, ill. p. 14, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail, 1878-1888.
Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 10, pl. 2, as Madame Cézanne with a Fan.
Parker 2011a
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 150-151, no. 15 in fig. 61 and 62, p. 396, no. 6 in fig. 55, p. 398, no. 10 in fig. 57, p. 400, no. 8 in fig. 59 and p. 402, no. 12 in fig. 62, as La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail).
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 504, ill.
Benedetti 2013b
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, fig. 23.
Kremnitzer 2014
Kremnitzer, Kathryn. "The Portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Madame Cézanne." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 195–96, listed, p. 26, pl. 6, as Portrait of the Artist's Wife.
Pola Museum of Art 2015
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 120, fig. 24.
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. 42.
Benedetti 2020
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Cezanne et le Novecento." In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, fig. 2.
Etgar 2021
Etgar, Yuval. "Die Werke Paul Cézannes: eingenommen von Blickbezügen." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, pp. 399-400, ill. p. 404, as Madame Cézanne mit dem Fächer.
Gloor 2021
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 268, no. 240, fig. 240 p. 269, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Record last updated February 8, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne à l'éventail, begun c. 1879; reworked 1886–88 (FWN 447)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=589 (accessed on April 18, 2024).