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 505
Le Fumeur accoudé
c.1891
Alternate titles: Der Raucher; Fumeur accoudé; L'Homme à la pipe; Le fumeur; Man with Pipe; Mann mit der Pfeife; Mann mit Pfeife; Raucher; The Smoker; Un Fumeur
Rewald (756): c.1891; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (684): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1890; Reff: 1892 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Signed: P. Cezanne at left on the table
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 11, as Mann mit Pfeife, lent by Vollard.
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 29, as Mann mit der Pfeife.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 3, ill., as L'Homme à la pipe, lent by Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 53, as Mann mit Pfeife, c. 1900, lent by Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Central Collecting Point de Marburg, Jubiläumsbau, Masterpieces of European Painting of the 19th and early 20th Century / Meisterwerke der europäischen Malerei des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, April 14–June 2, 1946, no. 18, ill. Man Smoking a Pipe, Mannheim Kunsthalle.
Kurhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, La peinture française moderne: de l'impressionnisme à nos jours - Moderne französische Malerei: vom Impressionismus bis zur Gegenwart, September 1946, no. 59, ill., as Le fumeur, 0.94 x 0.73cm. Traveled to: Stadtschloss, Berlin, October 22–November 6, 1946; Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany, November 19–December 5, 1946; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany, December 15, 1946–January 31, 1947.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes et romantiques français dans les musées allemands, 1951, no. 7, pl. 7, lent by Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 136, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 34, ill. p. 67, as Le Fumeur accoudé, 1890, lent by Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 20, ill., as The Smoker, c. 1890-91. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh: aus aller Welt zu Gast, September 26, 2014–January 18, 2015, listed p. 84, ill. p. 69, p. 66 (detail) and cover, as Le Fumeur accoudé, 1890.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, hors catalogue.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 115, ill. 1890, shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned.
Welt-Spiegel. "Die Cézanne-Ausstellung im Salon Cassirer, Berlin." Welt-Spiegel, April 25, 1912, No. 33.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 199.
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 143, as Der Raucher, 1896.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 241.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed.
Rivière, Georges. "La formation de Paul Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 15 (August 1, 1925), p. 3, ill., as L'Homme à la pipe.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 117, as Der Raucher, 1896.
Rintelen, Friedrich. "Paul Cézanne's geschichtliche Stellung." In Reden und Aufsätze. Basel: Schwabe, 1927, p. 158, mentioned (written ca. 1915–16).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. CI.
Tietze, Hans. "Les Peintres français du XIXe siècle dans les musées allemands." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 17, periode 5 (February 1928), p. 115, ill., as Un Fumeur.
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, pl. 5 and cover.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 684, ill. vol. II, as Fumeur accoudé.
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 Fumeur accoudé.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 39, ill.
Leuteritz, Gustav. "Französische Malerei in Berlin." Bildende Kunst: Zeitschrift für Malerei, Graphik, Plastik und Architektur (Berlin), no. 1 (1947), p. 18, as Raucher.
Balzer, Wolfgang. Der Französische Impressionismus: Die Hauptmeister in der Malerei. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1958, no. 104, ill., as Der Raucher, c. 1895-1900.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 70, ill. in color.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 143.
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. 197, compared with a painting Dutch school 17th century.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, ill. b/w.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 131, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 111.
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. 756, ill. vol. 2, as Le Fumeur accoudé.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 211, fig. 5.24, as Le Fumeur accoudé.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 10.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 156, ill.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 16, as Le Fumeur accoudé.
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. 17, fig. 4, as Man with Pipe.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 561, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176, fig. 53.
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. 57.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 59.
Notes
Ratcliffe suggested that this work was probably "portrait de jardinier" given by Cézanne to Paul Alexis before the latter's return to Paris in April 1892.
The same tablecloth appears in FWN507 and FWN842.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Fumeur accoudé, c.1891 (FWN 505)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=733 (accessed on December 8, 2024).
