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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
Peter Schibli, Basel
FWN 490
Madame Cezanne en robe rouge
1888–90
Alternate titles: Damenbildnis; Die Frau im Sessel; Femme au fauteuil (Madame Cezanne); Gattin des Künstlers; La femme au fauteuil; La signora Cézanne sulla poltrona gialla; Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne à la chaise jaune; Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune; Madame Cezanne en un sillón amarillo; Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair; Mme Cezanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne in Red
Rewald (651): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (571): 1890–94; Cooper: c.1890, shortly after No. 621; Gowing: c.1890 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (81 x 65 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3440, portrait de femme assise sur un fauteuil jaune, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Lucie Ceconi [Lucie Cassirer-Oberwart], Berlin
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 22, 1912)
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich (August 13, 1912)
H. Pollak, Frankfurt
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne, and Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (Aug. 2, 1923)
Adolph Lewisohn, New York;
Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Mrs. H. Huttleston Rogers, New York
Peter A. Salm, New York
[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 16, 1955)]
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, New York (Jan. 3, 1956);
Loeb Collection, Christie's, New York, May 12, 1997, no. 115, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Exhibition History
1912 Marseille
Ateliers du quai Rive-Neuve, Marseille, France, Salon de Mai, May 1–15, 1912, no. 1, ill., as La femme au fauteuil.1912b Munich
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 4, as Damenbildnis.1930c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930, no. 21, as Madame Cézanne, lent by Lewisohn.1931 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 16, ill., as Portrait of Mme Cézanne in Red, lent by Lewisohn.1932d New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, March 22–April 15, 1932, no. 3.1934–35 Princeton
University Museum of Art, Princeton, New Jersey, [Traveling exhibition under the auspices of The Museum of Modern Art, New York], 1934–35.1935b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan, June 4–September 24, 1935, supplementary list.1937e New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and On Loan, June 23–November 4, 1937.1938b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, March 1–29, 1938, no. 5.1940 San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 239, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Sam A Lewisohn, New York.1940 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 5.1945a New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1945.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 49, ill. lent by Rogers.1948b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 7, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, lent by Mrs. Rogers.1954 Edinburgh and traveling
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 47, pl. VII, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, c. 1890, lent by Peter A. Salm. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.1954 Oslo
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 20, ill., as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, c. 1890, lent by Peter A. Salm.1958b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 29, as Mme Cezanne, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 35, ill. lent by Loeb.1961e New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 14, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1962c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, July 3–September 3, 1962, no. 10, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1963c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1963, no. 9, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1966b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July–September 1966, no. 26, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1968b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 30.1968 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 30, as Mme Cezanne, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb.1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 16, ill., p. 104, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 19, ill., as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2002–03 Treviso
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, October 9, 2002–March 30, 2003, no. 94, ill., as La signora Cézanne sulla poltrona gialla, lent by Fondation Beyeler.2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. pp. 38 and 210, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.2006–07a Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Hommage à Paul Cézanne, October 21, 2006–January 7, 2007.2007a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, El espejo y la máscara: el retrato en el siglo de Picasso, February 6–May 20, 2007, no. 41, ill., as Madame Cezanne en un sillón amarillo. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 17–September 16, 2007.2008 Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 31, ill. p. 18, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, lent by Beyeler Collection.2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 19, as Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair, lent by Fondation Beyeler, Basel.2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 43, ill. shown in Paris and Washington only.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 14.1, ill. shown in Paris and Washington only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 48, ill.Published References
Bres 1912
Bres, Louis. "Le Salon de Mai." Le Sémaphore de Marseille (May 15, 1912), p. 2, as La femme au fauteuil.Négis 1912
Négis, André. "Sur le Salon de Mai." Le Petit Provençal, May 13, 1912, p. 3, as La femme au fauteuil.Biermann 1913
Biermann, Georg. "Die Kunst auf dem internationalen Markt: I. Gemälde aus dem Besitz der Modernen Galerie Thannhauser, München." Der Cicerone 5, no. 9 (1913), p. 322, fig. 15 p. 320, as Die Frau im Sessel.Moderne Galerie Thannhauser 1916
Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München. Munich: Moderne Galerie Tannhauser, 1916, listed p. XXIX, ill. pl. 31, as Gattin des Künstlers.Watson 1926d
Watson, Forbes. "The Adolph Lewisohn Collection." The Arts 10 (July 1926), p. 34, ill.Bourgeois 1928
Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculpture. New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, p. 181, ill.Bourgeois and Waldemar-George 1932
Bourgeois, Stephan, and Waldemar-George. "L'art français du XIXe et du XXe siècles à la collection Adolphe et Samuel Lewisohn." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, nos. 28–29 (1932), ill. between pp. 302 and 303.Flint 1932
Flint, Ralph. "Gauguin, Cézanne and Redon Show at Durand-Ruel's." Art News 30, no. 16 (March 26, 1932), pp. 5, 7.Nirdlinger 1932
Nirdlinger, Virginia. "On View in the New York Galleries." Parnassus 4, no. 4 (April 1932), p. 10, mentioned.Cheney 1934
Cheney, Sheldon. Expressionism in Art. New York: Liveright, 1934, p. 251.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 571, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.Lewisohn 1939
Lewisohn, Sam A. "Personalities Past and Present." Art News Annual 37 (January 1, 1939), title page (ill. of painting hanging in Lewisohn 2nd-floor drawing room).Frankfurter 1940b
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Master Paintings & Drawings of Six Centuries at the Golden Gate." Art News 38, no. 38 (July 13, 1940), p. 14, ill.Ozenfant 1947
Ozenfant, Amedée. "Cézanne." Arts et Spectacles (April 18, 1947), p. 1, ill.Carpenter 1951
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), pp. 179, 182, fig. 7.Museum of Modern Art, New York 1954
"Circulating Exhibitions 1931-54." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 21, nos. 3–4 (Summer 1954), p. 6 (mentioned).Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 225.Anonymous 1957
Anonymous. "The 'Isms' of Art: a Brief Guide." The Observer (London), November 3, 1957, ill. p. 14, as Madame Cézanne.Loeb Collection 1982
The Frances and John L. Loeb Collection. London: [privately published], 1982, no. 26, ill.Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 196, ill.Rubin 1994
Rubin, James. Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, p. 216, fig. 94.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 400, fig.1Rewald 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. 651, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.Beyeler 1997
Fondation Beyeler, ed. Sammlung Beyeler. Munich: Prestel, 1997, pp. 60-61, no. 5.Du 1997
Du. "Sammlung Beyeler: die Werke, der Bau." Du 57, no. 12 (December 1997), p. 26, ill.Duden 1997
Duden, Anne. "Paul Cézanne: Porträt Mme Cézanne." Du 57, no. 12 (December 1997), p. 26, ill.Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 13.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 2, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.Leopold Museum 2010
"Paul Cézanne in der Sammlung Beyeler." In Cézanne – Picasso – Giacometti: Meisterwerke der Fondation Beyeler, Leopold Musuem (editor). Vienna: Leopold Musuem-Privatstiftung, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 90-91, ill., as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.Benedetti 2013b
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, fig. 108.Schubert 2015
Schubert, Karsten. "Madame Cézanne: New York." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1345 (April 2015), ill. p. 296, as Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair, c. 1889-90.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 184, ill., as Femme au fauteuil (Madame Cezanne).Haskell 2022
Haskell, Caitlin. "Cezanne's Refusal." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 42, fig. 8.Related work
Record last updated June 2, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne en robe rouge, 1888–90 (FWN 490)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=632 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
