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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
© Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
FWN 683
L'Homme à la pipe
1892–96
Alternate titles: L'homme à la pipe; Les Joueurs de cartes; Man with a pipe; Man with Pipe; Man with Pipe (Study for the Card Players); Study for the Card Players
Rewald (711): 1892–96; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (566): 1890–92
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 8 1/16 in. (26 x 20.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3780, le fumeur; huile, 20 x 26 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 563, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1894
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Georges Linaret, Paris (July 13, 1901)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Sept. 27, 1904)
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris;
Gertrude Stein, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (Oct. 15, 1919)
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York;
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1972)
Exhibition History
1930e New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Opening Exhibition, October 4–31, 1930, no. 3.1931 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 13, as Man with Pipe (Study for the Card Players).1932c New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, March–April 1932.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 36, ill., (dated c. 1891–92), as Study for the Card Players, lent by Harriman Gallery.1936d New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 3, as Man with a pipe.1937 San Diego
San Diego Museum, San Diego, 1937.1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 28, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 15, (dated 1890–92), as L'Homme à la pipe, lent by Harriman.1945 Dayton
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, The Little Show, 1945.1947 Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 8, ill. lent by Harriman.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 47, ill. lent by Harriman.1951 New Haven and traveling
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists, February 11–March 11, 1951, no. 5, as Man with Pipe, lent by Averell Harriman. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, March 21–April 21, 1951.1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 45, ill. lent by Harriman.1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 51, lent by Harriman.1961 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 16.1970–71 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, no number. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.1981 Cincinnati
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Small Paintings from Famous Collections, April 4–June 7, 1981.2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 12, ill., p. 154, as L'Homme à la pipe. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.2010–11 London and traveling
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 15, ill., as Man with a pipe. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.2016–17 Liège
La Boverie, Liège, Belgium, 21 rue La Boetie, September 22, 2016–January 29, 2017, notice 22 p. 199, ill., as L'homme à la pipe.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 241 (reconstructed image with FWN 783 [pl. 242], p. 199), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 129, ill., as L'Homme à la pipe.Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 19, as Les Joueurs de cartes (fragment).Art News 1930a
The Art News (Oct. 11, 1930), p. 12, ill., as Man with a pipe.Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXV p. 52.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 566, ill. vol. II, as L'homme à la pipe.Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 158, ill.Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 227.Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 13.National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2588, p. 63, ill., as Man with Pipe.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 56, fig. 36.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. 711, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme à la pipe.Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 396–97, no. 13, ill., as Man with Pipe.
Proposed reconstruction with FWN 688 - see MoMA 2021, p. 199
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme à la pipe, 1892–96 (FWN 683)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=689 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
