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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 541
La Dame en bleu
c.1904
Alternate titles: Dame en bleu; La femme en camisole bleue; Portrait de la dame en bleu
Rewald (944): c.1904; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (705): 1900–1904; Reff: probably 1900–1902 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
34 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (88.5 x 72 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4322, femme assise avec chapeau; appuyée sur une table et couverte d'un tapis, 92 x 73 cm (500 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 353 and [529], Annotated: 1899
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sergei Shchukin, Moscow (Jan. 1909);
First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);
State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (1948)
Exhibition History
1926 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 20.1956a Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 21.1956b Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 56.1965 Bordeaux and traveling
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. 57, as Portrait de la dame en bleu, 1900-04, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Traveled to: Paris, September 1965–January 1966.1965–66c Paris
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. 49, ill., as La Dame en bleu, c. 1900-1904, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.1972 Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [L'Art du Portrait - Egypte ancienne, Antiquité, Orient, Europe occidentale], 1972, no. 391.1974 Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 55, 1898-1899.1977–78 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 54, pl. 19. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).1978a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 11, ill.1986a Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the U.S.S.R., May 1–June 15, 1986, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 26–August 12, 1986; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 23–October 5, 1986.1987 Lugano
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 19, ill., as Dame en bleu, c. 1900.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 77, ill.1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 188, ill. 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. 44, ill., (dated c. 1900). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 233, ill. p. 47, as La Dame en bleu.2016–17 Paris
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. 247, 438, ill.2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 60, ill. shown in Paris only.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 23.1, ill. shown in Paris 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.Published References
Ternovietz 1925
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, as La femme en camisole bleue.Museum of Modern Western Art 1928
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 550.Réau 1929
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. 732.Becker 1932
Becker, John. "The Museum of Modern Western Painting in Moscow—Part I." Creative Art 10 (March 1932), p. 200, discussed.Iavorskaia 1935a
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 32.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 705, ill. vol. II, as Dame en bleu.Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, p. 83.Cahiers d'Art 1950
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 6, listed p. 338, as Dame en bleu.Sterling 1957
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 96.Sterling 1958
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 96.Descargues 1961
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, pp. 222–23, ill.Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 38, pl. 79.Barskaya 1975b
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. 44, ill.Gowing 1977
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, ill.Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 144-145, pl. 44,45.Bessonova and Williams 1986
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. 177, ill.Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 221, ill. in color.Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 139, ill. in color.Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 169, ill.Kostenevich 1989
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, pp. 454–55, figs. 60 and 61.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 178, fig. 155, 1900–04.Cahn 1995c
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 46, 1900-1904.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. 944, ill. vol. 2, as La Dame en bleu.Coutagne 2002
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 22, ill. in color.Dittmann 2002
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 8.Lewis 2002
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 28, ill. in color.Feilchenfeldt 2005b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 179, ill.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 138, fig. 35, as La Dame en bleu, dated c. 1900–04.Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 210, pl. 97.Clark 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 44.Record last updated August 10, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Dame en bleu, c.1904 (FWN 541)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=917 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
