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 669
Arlequin
1888–90
Alternate titles: Étude d'Arlequin; Harlekin; Harlequin
Rewald (619): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1888; Venturi (555): 1888–90
Oil on canvas
24 9/16 x 18 5/8 in. (62.3 x 47.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3908, huile; arlequin tenant la batte, 62 x 46 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 195, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1889
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 23, as Étude d'Arlequin, tentative identification.
Institut français, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, [Exposition centennale de l'art français, 1812-1912], opening January 15, no. 588, as Arlequin, lent by Vollard.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 5, as Harlekin.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 26, as Harlekin.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 23, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 55, ill., as Arlequin, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 42, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art.
Published References
K.[irstein], [Gustav]. "Ausstellungen." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XXIV, no. 16 (January 17, 1913), col. 230.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 555, ill. vol. II, as Arlequin.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as Arlequin.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 137.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 43, ill.
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. 619, ill. vol. 2, as Arlequin.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art
Paintings. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2002, no. 27.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 134, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 152, ill.
Elderfield, John. "Dr. Barnes's Cézanne." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, fig. 9, as Harlequin.
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Record last updated June 15, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Arlequin, 1888–90 (FWN 669)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=601 (accessed on October 5, 2024).
