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 507
Le Fumeur
c.1891, possibly later
Alternate titles: L'homme à la pipe; L'homme et la pipe; Le fumeur; Man Smoking a Pipe; Mann mit der Pfeife
Rewald (790): 1893–96; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (688): 1895–1900; Reff: 1892 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
35 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (91 x 72 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3521, huile; portrait d'homme, le coude appuyé sur une table et fumant; dans un angle de tableau un quart de femme assise, 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 57.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 19, ill.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 56.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de l'Ermitage et de Moscou, May 14–September 6, 1965, no. 56, pl. 17, as L'homme à la pipe, 1896, lent by the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Traveled to: Paris, September 1965–January 1966.
Réunion des musée nationaux, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de Leningrad et de Moscou, September 1965–January 1966, no. 48, ill., as L'homme à la pipe, lent by the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
Grand Palais, Paris, De Renoir à Matisse: 22 chefs-d'oeuvre des musées soviétiques et français, June 6–September 18, 1978, no. 5, ill., as Le Fumeur.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 31, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 33, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 22, ill., as Man Smoking a Pipe, shown in London only. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 141, 438, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 47, ill. shown in London only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 16.2, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 92, ill.
Published References
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Collection Shchukin." Apollon, no. 1-2 (January-February 1914), pp. 38–39.
Grautoff, Otto. "Die Sammlung Serge Stschoukine in Moskau." Kunst und Künstler 17, no. 3 (1919), ill. p. 89.
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 L'homme et la pipe.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 551.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 733.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 688, ill. vol. II, as Le Fumeur.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 7, listed p. 338, as L'homme à la pipe, 1896.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, fig. 27.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, fig. 31.
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.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 181, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 26.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 36.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 143, pl. 40.
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.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, ill. b/w.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 227, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 18, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 342, fig. 2.
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. 790, ill. vol. 2, as Le Fumeur.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 6.
Kostenevich, Albert. "Cézanne in Russland." In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 6, as Mann mit der Pfeife.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne's 'Card players': London and New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), fig. 43, as Man Smoking a Pipe, c. 1895.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 23, pl. 7.
Hale, Charlotte. "A Template for Experimentation: Cézanne's Process and the Paintings of Hortense Fiquet." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 13, as Man Smoking a Pipe.
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. 208 p. 219.
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. 270, fig. 3, as Man Smoking a Pipe.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 70.
Notes
The unstretched canvas pinned to the wall at upper right is a portrait of Madame Cezanne [Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1886–87 (487)]
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Fumeur, c.1891, possibly later (FWN 507)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=767 (accessed on April 26, 2025).
