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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
SIK-ISEA Zürich; © Abegg-Stiftung, CH-3132 Riggisberg, 2011
FWN 817
Le Rideau
1888–90
Alternate titles: Der Vorhang; Der Vorhang zum Mardi-gras; Etude de drap; The Curtain; Vorhang
Rewald (654): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (747): c.1900
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3303, Un rideau, la tapisserie faisant portière, relevé d'un côté se détachant sur un fond gris. Etude pour le arlequin et le pierrot, 92 x 73 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Lucie Ceconi [Lucie Cassirer-Oberwart], Berlin
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 22, 1912)
[Paul Cassirer, Berlin (March 25, 1912)]
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (Feb. 12, 1914)
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne and New York
Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 17, 1945)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (May 1950)
Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg
Exhibition History
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 1, as Le Rideau, for sale.1927 Frankfurt am Main
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Ausstellung Französischer Meister des XIX Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz ergänzt durch sechs Gemälde von Cézanne als Leihgabe der Sammlung G.F. Reber, Lugano, October 16–November 16, 1927, no. 7, as Der Vorhang.1940 San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 236, as The Curtain, c. 1885-88, lent by Lilienfeld Galleries, New York.1947 Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 10, ill. lent by Knoedler.1949 Palm Beach
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, The Post-Impressionists and Their Followers, February 4–27, 1949, no. 6, (dated c. 1900), as The Curtain, lent by Fine Arts Association.Published References
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 132.Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 162.Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 25, as Etude de drap.Querschnitt 1925
"Karnivalistische Kuriosa." Der Querschnitt 5, no. 2 (February 1925), ill. opp. p. 105, as Der Vorhang zum Mardi-gras.Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 106, as Vorhang, c. 1890 (Photo: Thannhauser).Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXVIII.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 747, ill. vol. II, as Le Rideau.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 276, fig. 2.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. 654, ill. vol. 2, as Le Rideau.Schmidt 1998
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 11.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.Giles and Armstrong 2002
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 3.Kropmanns 2006
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.Eiling 2017
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 14.Eiling et al. 2017
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 233 fig. 3.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 154, fig. 44.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. 48.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 110.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 13, ill., as Le Rideau (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 97).Clark 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 67.Related
Record last updated March 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Rideau, 1888–90 (FWN 817)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=635 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
