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Catalogue entry

FWN 512
Le Liseur
c.1894
Alternate titles: A Youngster with a Book; Junger lesender Mann; Knabe im Hut mit aufgeschlagenem Buch; Le liseur; Sitzender Mann mit Buch; Young Man Reading
Rewald (788): c.1894; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (678): 1894–96; Vollard: 1896
Oil on canvas
32 5/16 x 26 in. (82 x 66 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3763, huile; portrait d'homme en gris tenant dans les mains un livre ouvert, 81 x 65 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 452
Private Collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Wilhelm Hansen, Ordrupgaard (Copenhagen) (1917)
Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris (1923)
Fujikawa Galleries, Tokyo (1953)
Kuzaemon Wada, Osaka
Wildenstein Galleries, New York (1972)
Private Collection (Jan. 31, 1972)
Exhibition History
1910d Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 21, as Le Liseur, tentative identification.
1912a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 9, as Junger lesender Mann, lent by Vollard.
1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 143, as Knabe im Hut mit aufgeschlagenem Buch, lent by Vollard?)
1912b Munich
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 12, as Sitzender Mann mit Buch, tentative identification.
1924–25 San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Inaugural Exposition of French Art, 1924–25, no. 4, (section: Painting: Retrospective Exposition), as Young Man Reading, lent by Private collection.
1947a Tokyo
Musée National, Tokyo, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art de l'occident, 1947.
1953 Osaka
Galerie Fujikawa, Osaka, Japan, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture européenne, 1953, no. 12, ill.
1960 Tokyo
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Masterpieces of the ex-Matsukata Collection, May 14–July 10, 1960, no. 8, ill.
1963 Tokyo
Isetan [Department Store], Tokyo, Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, March 1–17, 1963, no. 1, ill.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 50, as Le Liseur.
Gold 1920
Gold, Alfred. "Kunst und Sammler in Dänemark und Skandinavien." Der Cicerone 12, no. 24 (1920), p. 872.
Zervos 1927
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 332, ill.
Olmenhove 1935
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 9 (no.12), as Le liseur, 1885.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 678, ill. vol. II, as Le Liseur.
Lee 1948
Lee, Sherman E. "Occupied Japan: First Report." Art News 46, no. 12 (February 1948), p. 53, ill. p. 19.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 48.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 51, JW: check? (in notes).
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 6.
Boas 1988
Boas, Nancy. The Society of Six: California Colorists. San Francisco, 1988, pp. 102, 199, note 3.
Asmussen 1993
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Connection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, no. 93, ill.
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. 788, ill. vol. 2, as Le Liseur.
Schaefer 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 143, p. 556.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016c
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. 564, ill.
National Museum of Western Art 2018a
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 1, Paintings. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 126, no. 228, ill., as A Youngster with a Book.
Record last updated February 2, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Liseur, c.1894 (FWN 512)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=765 (accessed on April 25, 2024).