Catalogue entry

FWN 524

Paysan en blouse bleue

c.1897

Alternate titles: Bauer mit rotem Halstuch; Der Fuhrmann; L'homme en bleu; Le paysan; Le Paysan en blouse bleue; Man in a Blue Smock; Man in Blue; Paysan; Paysan des environs d'Aix; Portrait d'homme; Portrait of a Man; Portrait of a Man in Blue; Porträt eines Fuhrmanns; Sitzender Bauer

Rewald (826): c.1897; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (687): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1890(?); Reff: early 1890s or end of 1890s (MoMA)

Oil on canvas

31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 3485, huile; paysan assis cravate rouge chapeau sur la tête, 81 x 65 cm (200 frs)

Vollard archives: photo no. 166, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1891

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Keywords

People
Other:
- père Alexandre »
Figure compositions
Individual subject:
- laborer(s) / ouvrier(s) »
Interiors
Furnishings:
- screen / paravent »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (June 25, 1910)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (June 30, 1911)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (June 30, 1911)

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Oct. 31, 1912)

Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne

Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York

A. Conger Goodyear, New York

Mrs. Mary G. Kenefick, Buffalo

Sotheby's, London, Nov. 25, 1959, no. 17, ill.

Henry Ford II, Detroit;

Ford Collection, Christie's, New York, May 13, 1980, no. 3, ill.

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (1980)

Exhibition History

1912a Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 8, as Sitzender Bauer, lent by Vollard, Cassirer buys.

1912 Cologne

Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 146, as Bauer mit rotem Halstuch.

1912 Barmen

Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 21, tentative identification.

1913 Darmstadt

Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 13, as Der Fuhrmann.

1913a Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 28, as Porträt eines Fuhrmanns.

1914 Dresden

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 4, as Der Fuhrmann, lent by Paul Cassirer, Berlin.

1926 London

French Gallery, London, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century (Ingres to Picasso), February 25 - end of March 1926, no. 4, as Portrait d'homme, 1887.

1926–27 Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Arts Club Exhibitions: Some Modern Paintings, December 21, 1926–January 24, 1927, no. 2, as Portrait of a Man, Lent by Wildenstein Galleries.

1927b Toronto

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Portraits, October 7–November 6, 1927, no. 11.

1928d New York

Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 21, as L'homme en bleu, lent by Goodyear.

1928 Buffalo

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, [Goodyear Collection], June–August 1928, no. 3, ill.

1929 Cambridge, Mass.

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 7, pl. XXV, as Portrait of a Man in Blue, lent by A.C. Goodyear.

1929–30 Cleveland

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, French Art, 1929–30.

1933b Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 313, (dated 1892–95), lent by Goodyear.

1934 Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 37, (dated 1892–95), as Man in Blue, lent by Goodyear.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 88, as Le Paysan en blouse bleue, lent by Mrs. A. Conger Goodyear.

1942d New York

Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 20, ill. lent by anon.

1951 Buffalo

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1951.

1958 Buffalo

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1958, no. 20, ill.

1966 Buffalo

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints Collected by A. Conger Goodyear, April 30–June 5, 1966.

1978a Paris

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 5, ill.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 137, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.

1998 St. Petersburg and traveling

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 30, ill., (dated c. 1890?) Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).

2000 Vienna and traveling

Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 30, ill., as Paysan en blouse bleue, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).

2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 32, ill., (dated 1890–99). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.

2009 Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 62, p. 236 (dated 1892 or 1897), as Paysan en blouse bleue.

2010–11 London and traveling

Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 23, ill., as Man in a Blue Smock, c. 1892–97. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 62, ill.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 24.1, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 116, ill. c. 1896–97. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Gasquet 1898

Gasquet, Joachim. "Le Sang provençal." Les Mois dorés (March–April 1898), p. 379, as Un [paysan] surtout, dans sa blouse bleue, décorée de son foulard rouge, les bras ballants [...].

Osborn 1912

Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned.

Waldmann 1913a

Waldmann, Emil. "Die Sammlung Reber." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 9 (1913), p. 450.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed, as Paysan des environs d'Aix.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCIV.

Jones 1929

Jones, Ethel B. "French Painting at the Fogg Art Museum." Parnassus 1, no. 4 (April 1929), p. 18, ill.

Watson 1930

Watson, Forbes. "Cleveland Museum's French Exhibition." Arts 16, 5 (January 1930), p. 332, ill.

Bulliet 1933

Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 123.

Frankfurter 1933

Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Art in the Century in Progress." Fine Arts 20, no. 2 (June 1933), p. 36, ill.

Loran 1935

Loran, Erle. "Cézanne at the Pennsylvania Museum." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1935), p. 88, ill.

Besson 1936

Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 18 p. 12 et no. 17952 p. 14 (portfolio of 10 color plates).

Bulliet 1936

Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 12.

Laprade 1936

Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as L'homme en bleu.

D'Ors 1936b

Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), ill. cover (detail).

Huyghe 1936b

Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 78, as Le paysan, c. 1875.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 687, ill. vol. II, as Paysan.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 66.

Vollard 1937

Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 22.

Besson 1938

Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?), cover.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 149, p. 256, ill. (analysis p. 383).

Cogniat 1939a

Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 85.

Venturi 1942

Venturi, Lionello. "Cézanne: Fighter for Freedom." Art News 41, no. 13 (November 15, 1942), p. 16, ill.

Schildt 1946

Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 42.

Novotny 1947

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 62, as Paysan, c. 1895.

Rewald 1959a

Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 9.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 39.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 131.

Lesko 1976

Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 56, ill.

Rubin 1977a

Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 10.

Reff 1977c

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. 20, ill.

Reff 1979b

Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 25.

Gazette des beaux-arts 1981

"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1980." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1346 (March 1981), p. 41, no. 223, ill., as Paysan, c. 1895-97.

Müller 1982

Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 33.

Rewald 1986b

Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 194, ill.

Kimbell Art Museum 1987

In Pursuit of Quality. , p. 288, ill., as Man in a Blue Smock.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 175, fig. 153.

Coutagne 1995

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.

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. 826, ill. vol. 2, as Paysan en blouse bleue.

Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001

Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 188, fig. 5.1, as Paysan en blouse bleue.

Ely 2004

Ely, Bruno. "'Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus.' The purchase and sale of Jas de Bouffan by the Cézanne family." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 6, ill. in color.

Reff 2004

Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Early Paravent at the Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 42, ill. in color.

Bois 2009

Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 127, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.

Elderfield 2009

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. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.

Green 2009

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. 203, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.

Kostenevich 2009

Kostenevich, Albert. "Liubov Popova: From Cézanne to Utopia." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 348, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.

Ireson 2012

Ireson, Nancy. "Personalising the Past: Cézanne and the Cardplayers." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, fig. 40, as Man in a Blue Smock.

Schaefer 2012

Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 146, p. 556.

Colrat 2013

Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 329, pl. 152.

Dombrowski 2013

Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 235, fig. 96.

Christie’s 2016

Christie’s. Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s. New York: Phaidon Press, 2016, pp. 204, 205, 481, ill.

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. 552, ill.

Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016e

Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 134, ill.

Société Paul Cezanne 2019

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. 81 p. 97.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 208, ill., as Paysan.

Record last updated August 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysan en blouse bleue, c.1897 (FWN 524)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=802 (accessed on April 19, 2024).