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 680
Les Joueurs de cartes
1890–92
Alternate titles: Card Players; Die Kartenspieler; Joueurs de cartes; Joueurs de cartes or La partie de cartes; Kartenspieler; La partie de cartes; Les joueurs de cartes; Les Quatre joueurs de cartes; Partie de cartes; The Card Players; The Cardplayers
Rewald (707): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (559): 1890–92; Rivière: 1890; Reff: 1890–91 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3488, huile; quatre paysans jouent aux cartes autour d'une petite table. un ratelier de pipes est accroché à la muraille; à droite un rideau, 65 x 81 cm (250 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 117, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1890–91
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899, no. 16, as Les Joueurs de cartes, described in review by A-E Guyon-Verax.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Kartenspieler.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 47, as La partie de cartes, lent by MM. X [Bernheim-Jeune priv.]
Grosvenor House, London, Modern French Art, July 1-21, 1914, extended until end of July, no. 7, as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Private collection.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Peinture Moderne, June 14–23, 1917, no. 4, as La partie de cartes.
MM. Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, Essai d'une collection, June 14–28, 1917, no. 4, as La partie de cartes.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 34, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 14, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition d'oeuvres des XIXe et XX siècles, June 19–August 1, 1925, no. 13, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 29, as Die Kartenspieler, lent by Private collector.
Galerie George Petit, Paris, Cent ans de peinture française: exposition au profit de la cité universitaire, June 15–30, 1930, no. 28, ill., as Les joueurs de cartes, 1890.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 307, ill., (dated 1892), lent by Clark.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 68.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition, November 19, 1934–January 20, 1935, no. 6, ill.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 83, pl. XV, as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Stephen Clark.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, May 10–September 10, 1939, no. 62.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Masters from European and American Collections, January 26–March 4, 1940, no. 9.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 340, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 14, ill. lent by Clark.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibition, May 1944, no number, p. 25.
Century Association, New York, Paintings from the Stephen C. Clark Collection, June 6–September 28, 1946.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 45, ill. lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 79, ill. lent by S.C. Clark. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Collector's Taste: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, January 12–30, 1954, no. 11, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no number, p. 7, lent by Clark.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 111.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 14, as The Card Players, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 8, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 13, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 18. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920, February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 80, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 210, p. 528, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 1, ill., as The Card Players. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 125, ill.
Published References
Rosenhagen, Hans. "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen." Die Kunst für Alle 19, no. 17 (June 1, 1904), pp. 402-03.
Leblond, Marius-Ary. "Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts." Apollon 3, no. 6 (June 1910), ill. opp. p. 89.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 272, ill., as The Card Players, Collection Pellerin.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 76, as Kartenspieler.
Zayas, Marius de, and Paul B. Haviland. A Study of the Modern Evolution of Plastic Expression. New York: "291", 1913, p. 39, ill.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XLIII.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 339, ill., as The Card Players, "Collection Pellerin".
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 23.
Denis, Maurice. "L'influence de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 281, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 140.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. (color) p. 14, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 235, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 32, as Les Quatre joueurs de cartes.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed, ill. opp. 168, as Les Joueurs de cartes, dated 1890.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 502, as Die Kartenspieler.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. (color) p. 18, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Osborn, Max. "Klassiker der französischen Moderne: Die Galerien Thannhauser im Berliner Künstlerhaus." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 59 (October 1926-March 1927), ill. p. 339, as Die Kartenspieler.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 503, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 72-73, fig. 36, pl. XXVI.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCVI.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in Berlin." Der Cicerone 19, no. 2 (January 1927), p. 51, ill. p. 56, as Die Kartenspieler.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 2], as La partie de cartes.
"The Century of Progress Exhibition of the Fine Arts: One-Man Exhibition for Cézanne." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, no. 4 (April-May 1933), p. 66, ill. p. [68], as Card Players.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 69.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Art in the Century in Progress." Fine Arts 20, no. 2 (June 1933), p. 36, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 137, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 403, fig. 21.
Dabit, Eugène. "Au musée de l'Orangerie: Paul Cézanne." Regards (Paris), no. 125 (June 4, 1936), p. 16, ill., as Les joueurs de cartes.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 1, as Joueurs de cartes.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 65 p. 179, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 559, ill. vol. II, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 6.
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. 54, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 145, ill.
Aragon, Louis. "Paul Cézanne ou le camp français." Regards (Paris), no. 262 (January 19, 1939), ill. p. 16, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 125, p. 271, ill. (analysis p. 364).
Barotte, René. "Paul Cézanne." Paris-soir (Paris), January 21, 1939, ill. p. 9, as Partie de cartes.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 410, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 39, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), p. 179, fig. 6.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 72, pl. XXVI fig. 36, as The Cardplayers.
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 22, as The Card Players.
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 203, ill. (detail).
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. "Cézanne as an Old Master." Art News 51 (April 1952), p. 29, ill.
Berenson, Bernard. Seeing and Knowing. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1953, pl. 37.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 11, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 11.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 556, ill.
Levey, Michael. A Concise History of Paintings: From Giotto to Cézanne. London: Praeger, 1962, fig. 548.
"Nouvelles acquisitions dans les musées durant l'année 1961, supplément au numéro de février 1962, Etats-Unis." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1118 (March 1962), p. 28, no. 6, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Constable, W.G. Art Collecting in the United States of America. London: Nelson, 1964, fig. 32.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 112, ill. p. 114.
Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968, p. 46, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 110.
Salinger, Margaretta. "Windows Open to Nature." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (Summer 1968), ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 36, fig. 31.
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich. Essays on Art, 1915–33. New York: G. Wittenborn, 1971, fig. 1.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 43, ill.
Dijkstra, Bram, ed. A Recognizable Image: William Carlos WIlliams on Art and Artists. New York: New Directions, 1978, p. 180, ill.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, ill., as Die Kartenspieler.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 617.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980, fig. 795.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Cardplayers' and Their Sources." Arts Magazine 55, no. 3 (Nov. 1980), fig. 4.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 192.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 198–99, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 68, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 197, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 162, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 124, fig. 3.
Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. p. 49, 1890-92.
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. 707, ill. vol. 2, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Arrouye, Jean. "A Balance of Dissimilar Elements." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne, ed. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 125, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 262; vol. 2, p. 173, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Chevrier, Jean-François. "Jeff Wall: Within the View(ing), or The Spirit of Place." In Cézanne and Beyond. New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 528, pl. 210, as The Card Players.
Craft, Catherine. "Cézanne and Beyond." The Burlington Magazine 151, no. 1276 (July 2009), p. 501, fig. 75, as The Card Players.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 307, ill., p. 528, pl. 210, as The Card Players.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Cézanne and Hartley: On Sacred Ground." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 171, ill. p. 528, pl. 210, as The Card Players.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne's 'Card players': London and New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), fig. 41, as The Card Players, c. 1890-92.
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. 499, ill.
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 22, cat. 215, ill., as The Card Players.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 315, pl. 146.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, fig. 75.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 123, fig. 74.
Christie’s. Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s. New York: Phaidon Press, 2016, p. 205, ill.
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. 79.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 221 p. 233.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 163, ill., as Joueurs de cartes or La partie de cartes, installation photographs from their exhibitions: 1910,p. 83; 1925, p. 115; 1931, p. 124; and hanging in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 9.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 237, fig. 3, as The Card Players.
Janssen, Hans, and Sjoerd van Faassen. [no title]. In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 8.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 58.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 39.
Notes
Jacques Villon made an etching/aquatint after this work, published in 1929 by Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune. It was made in an edition of 200.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890–92 (FWN 680)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=685 (accessed on December 9, 2024).
