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Catalogue entry

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
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen (Dec. 21, 1912)
Private collection, Switzerland;
Sotheby's, London, November 29, 1988, no. 37, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Exhibition History
1910d Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 23, as Étude d'Arlequin, tentative identification.
1912 St. Petersburg
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.
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 5, as Harlekin.
1913a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 26, as Harlekin.
1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 23, ill.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2015 Kanagawa
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
Kirstein 1913
K.[irstein], [Gustav]. "Ausstellungen." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XXIV, no. 16 (January 17, 1913), col. 230.
Waldmann 1913a
Waldmann, Emil. "Die Sammlung Reber." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 9 (1913), p. 449.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 555, ill. vol. II, as Arlequin.
Rewald 1937a
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 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 137.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 43, 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. 619, ill. vol. 2, as Arlequin.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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.
Pola Museum of Art 2002
Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art Paintings. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2002, no. 27.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2016e
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 2021
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 April 19, 2024).