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Catalogue entry

FWN 396
Tête d'homme
1865
Alternate titles: Männerkopf; Männlicher Kopf; Portrait de Chaillon le Forain
Rewald (74): 1865; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (110): 1867–69
Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 13 in. (41 x 33 cm)
Signed and dated above right shoulder in red: P. CEZANE 65
Vollard archives: photo no. 470
Detroit Institute of Arts (Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Private Treaty Sale from Mrs. Paul Smolka)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection) (July 26, 1916)
Suse Paret-Cassirer, Berlin (1926)
Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, May 17, 1927, no. 38, ill.
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (May 17, 1927)
Paul Smolka, Prague and Larchmont (Jan. 16, 1932);
Estate of Paul Smolka;
Parke-Bernet, New York, Apr. 26, 1972, no. 15, ill.; bought in
Detroit Institute of Arts (1972)
Exhibition History
1913b Berlin
Berlin, XXVI. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1913, no. 26, as Männlicher Kopf, lent by Vollard.
1913 Cologne
Kunstverein Gemäldegalerie, Cologne, Eröffnungsausstellung, October–November 1913, no. 9, as Männerkopf.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
1914 Dresden
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 10, as Männerkopf, tentative identification, lent by Vollard.
1915a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XVII. Jahrgang 1914–15, Sommer-Ausstellung, Summer 1915, no. 10, as Männerkopf, tentative identification.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 100, ill. vol. II, as Tête d'homme.
Barotte 1939
Barotte, René. "Paul Cézanne." Paris-soir (Paris), January 21, 1939, ill. p. 9, as Portrait de Chaillon le Forain.
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. 74, ill. vol. 2, as Tête d'homme.
Additional material / links
Record last updated November 7, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Tête d'homme, 1865 (FWN 396)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=89 (accessed on April 20, 2024).