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FWN 545
Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face; Le Marin
1902–06
Alternate titles: Le jardinier Vallier vu de face; Le Marin; Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face; Le Paysan; Le Vieux à la casquette; Paysan; Portrait (Jardinier Vallier); Portrait de Vallier; Portrait of the Gardener Vallier; Porträt von Vallier; Un vieillard; Vallier de façe
Rewald (951): 1902–06; Venturi revised: 1906; Venturi (717): 1904–5
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.3 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4465, Paysan assis une main appuyée sur la cuisse (20000/40000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 372, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1905
Private collection, Geneva

Keywords

Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Ambroise Vollard, Paris and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Feb. 12, 1907)
Jos. Hessel, Paris (July 1, 1908)
Henry Bernstein, Paris;
Bernstein Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 8, 1911, no. 8, ill.
Josef Müller, Solothurn, Switzerland;
Private collection, Geneva
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 51, as Un vieillard, lent by Vollard.
1907–08 Paris
MM. Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, Portraits d'hommes, December 16, 1907–January 4, 1908, no. 20, as Un vieillard.
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 11, as Paysan, lent by H. Bernstein.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 37, as Le Paysan, tentative identification, lent by Muller.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 85, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
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. 67, pl. 23. 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. 13, ill.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 30, ill., (dated 1905–06), as Le jardinier Vallier vu de face, lent by Private collection.
1989 Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 9, ill., as Le jardinier Vallier vu de face, 1905-1906.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 225, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1999 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 11, ill.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 51, ill., p. 110 (dated 1904–06), as Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face, lent by Private collection.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 34, ill., as Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face, lent by Private collection, 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).
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 103, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Wright 1916a
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne, The Misanthropic Don Quixote of Modern Art." Current Opinion 60 (February 1916).
Vollard 1917
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne's Studio." The Soil 1, no. 3 (March 1917), ill. between pp. 110 and 111.
Gasquet 1919
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne aux mendicants." Feuillets d'art (1919), p. 43, ill.
Gasquet 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 67, pl. p. 68, as Le Vieux à la casquette.
Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 112, pl. [21] hors texte, as Le Vieux à la casquette.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 717, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Vallier.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as Portrait de Vallier.
Badt 1971
Badt, Kurt. Das Spätwerk Cézannes. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1971, p. 36, ill.
Barbier 1978
Barbier, Jean Paul. "Über Joseph Müller." Du 38, no. 8 (August 1978), p. 73, ill.
Hattis 1978
Hattis, Phyllis. "Zu den Bildern in der 'Schanzmühle.'" Du 38, no. 8 (August 1978), p. 45.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 159, fig. 84.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 132 (referred to above).
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 24, 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. 951, ill. vol. 2 and p. 45, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face.
Bois 1998
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne: Words and Deeds." Translated by Rosalind Krauss. October 84 (Spring 1998), p. 41, ill., as Portrait of the Gardener Vallier.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 191, ill., as Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face.
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. 13, ill. in color.
Koella 2006
Koella, Rudolf. "Vollard und die Schweiz." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 126, as Porträt von Vallier, c. 1905-06.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 379; vol. 2, p. 239, as Le Marin.
Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 124, fig. 33, as Le Marin; also known as Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 57, pl. 8.
Barbier-Mueller and Menz 2016
Barbier-Mueller, Monique and Menz, Cäsar. Gertrud Dübi-Müller. Sammlerin, Fotografin, Mäzenin. Zurich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2016, no. 80, p. ill. 99.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 241, fig. 70.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 84.
France-Lanord 2018
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 126, as Vallier de façe.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 210, ill., as Portrait (Jardinier Vallier), installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 85.

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Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Jardinier Vallier vu de face; Le Marin, 1902–06 (FWN 545)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=924 (accessed on April 26, 2024).