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 546
Homme assis
1905–06
Alternate titles: Portrait de paysan; Portrait of a Farmer
Rewald (952): 1905–06; Venturi revised: 1904–6; Venturi (714): 1900–1906
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (64.8 x 54.6 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7099, Paysan au chapeau de paille assis dans paysage, 65 x 54 cm
Provenance
Exhibition History
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. 64, pl. 16. 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).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 8, ill.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, May 19–July 8, 1984, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan, July 20–August 26, 1984.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, October 12–December 19, 1984, no. 16, ill. in color, p. 38.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Moderne Malerei aus der Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, January 27–March 24, 1985, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, April 20–June 6, 1985.
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, Maestri dell'arte moderna nella Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza, July 5–September 29, 1985, no. 18, ill.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Maîtres Modernes de la Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, October 23, 1985–January 5, 1986.
Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Biblioteca Nacional, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Maestros modernos de la Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, February 10–April 6, 1986, no. 18, ill. Traveled to: Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, mid-April - June 1986.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 39, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Villa Favorita Castagnola, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionismus und Postimpressionismus: Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, April 1–July 8, 1990, no. 25, ill. in color, pp. 66–67.
Noordbrabants Museum, Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, Een feest van kleur. Post-impressionisten uit particulier bezit, September 15–November 25, 1990, no. 11, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 70, ill., as Homme assis, 1901-06, lent by Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 35, ill., as Homme assis. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 155, ill. shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, February 5–May 18, 2008, no. 6, ill., as Portrait of a Farmer.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Impressionismus: Wie das Licht auf die Leinwand kam [Painting Light: The hidden techniques of the Impressionists], February 29–June 22, 2008, no. 286, ill., p. 286, shown in Vienna only. Traveled to: Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, July 11–September 28, 2008; Albertina, Vienna, September 11, 2009–January 10, 2010.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 1, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 67, ill. shown in Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 26.1, ill. shown in Washington 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.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 92, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 60, ill. lent by Musée Nacional Thyssen, Madrid.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 89, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 135, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 714, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de paysan.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 83, pl. 39.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 46, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 511, fig. 1.
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. 952, ill. vol. 2, as Homme assis.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 375; vol. 2, p. 237, as Homme assis.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 25.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 157 et p. 158 (2 details), as Homme assis.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Homme assis, 1905–06 (FWN 546)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=925 (accessed on December 11, 2024).
