The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 506
Le Fumeur accoudé
c.1891
Alternate titles: Der Raucher; Fumeur; Fumeur accoudé; Le fumeur; Le fumeur accoudé; The Smoker
Rewald: (757) c.1891; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi: (686) 1895–1900; Rivière: 1890; Reff: 1892 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
35 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (91 x 72 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3563, huile; un paysan est accoudé, dans un coin de tableau une petite bouteille noir et q.q. fruits, 92 x 73 cm (250 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 282, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1890
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 1, as Le fumeur, lent by Vollard.
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 18.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 18, ill.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, no number, p. 56.
Tokyo, 100 Masterpieces of Paintings from Soviet Museums, 1971, no. 53. Traveled to: ?, Kyoto, Japan, 1971.
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, From van Gogh to Picasso, April 30–July 16, 1972, no. 2.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R., March 31–April 29, 1973, no. 4, ill. Traveled to: Knoedler Gallery, New York, May 3–June 3, 1973. Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, June 15–July 8, 1973.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Impressionist Painting: Exhibition to Mark the Centenary of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, 1974, no. 53.
Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France, La Peinture impressionniste et pos-impressionniste au Musée de l'Ermitage, May 23–July 3, 1978, no. 3, ill., as Le fumeur, c. 1895.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Capolavori impressionisti e postimpressionisti dai musei sovietici, June 14–October 15, 1983, no. 7, ill.
Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 8. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 33, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986. Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 4, ill., as Le Fumeur accoudé, 1895-1900.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 30, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 29, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 29, ill., (dated c. 1890–92). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 43, fig. 255, pp. 248, 342, as Le fumeur accoudé. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 155, p. 447 (dated c. 1890–92, size: 927 x 737 cm), as Le fumeur accoudé.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 21, ill., pp. 142–43, as The Smoker. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Published References
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, ill. between pp. 28, 29 as Le fumeur.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill. p. 209.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 197.
Van Doren, Harold L. "Some Little Known Cézannes." Touchstone 8 (December 1920), p. 186, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 240.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, ill. as Le fumeur.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 118 as Der Raucher, 1896.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCIX.
Réau, Louis. Catalogue d'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 748.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 686, ill. vol. II as Fumeur accoudé.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 97.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 97.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, fig. 1.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 41, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 19, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue., p. 19, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 28.
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. 198.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 168, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue., p. 71, pl. 33.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 229, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 25, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 454, figs. 57, 58.
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. 757, ill. vol. 2 as Le fumeur accoudé.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 94, fig. 7 (detail).
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue., p. 237, ill, p. 447, pl. 155 as The Smoker, dated c. 1890–92.
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue., p. 205, ill, p. 447, pl. 155 as The Smoker, dated circa 1890–92.
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Kelly: Painting Form through Color." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue., p. 44, pl. 155 as The Smoker, dated c. 1890–92.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Melancholie und 'décoration.' Zur Stimmung im Werk Paul Cézannes." In Stimmung. Ästhetische Kategorie und künstlerische Praxis, edited by Kerstin Thomas. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 86, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 330, pl. 153.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 237, fig. 98.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue., p. 177, fig. 51.
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. 56.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 95, 1890-92.
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. 210 p. 220.
Notes
The unstretched paintings in the background are Pots, bouteille, tasse et fruits, 1867–69 (710) and Baigneurs en plein air, 1890–91 (949).
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Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Le Fumeur accoudé, c.1891 (FWN 506)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=734 (accessed on May 8, 2021).
