Catalogue entry

FWN 451

Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord

1879–80

Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autoportrait au chapeau; Cézanne; Cézanne au chapeau; Cézanne au chapeau noir; Cézanne par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne, en chapeau de feutre; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau; Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, avec chapeau; Self Portrait; Vlastní podobizna; Zelfportret

Rewald (415): 1879–80; Venturi revised: c.1880; Cézanne fils: 1885; Venturi (366): 1879–82; Rivière: 1880; Cooper: c.1877; Gowing: c.1880 (Edinburgh)

Oil on canvas

25 5/8 x 20 1/16 in. (65 x 51 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 4176, Cezanne portrait au chapeau B[ernheim], 60 x 50 cm

Vollard archives: photo no. 203, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885

Kunstmuseum Bern

Keywords

People
Paul Cezanne:
- self-portrait / autoportrait »
- self-portrait with hat/ autoportrait avec chapeau »
Technique and Condition:
- parallel brush strokes »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Feb. 27, 1907)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (April 22, 1911)

Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Marcel Kapferer, Paris

Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London

Georges Keller, New York

Max Kaganovitch, Paris

Emil Georg Bührle, Zurich (April 11, 1950)

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (1950)

Exhibition History

1904b Paris

Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 5, as Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, avec chapeau, lent by Vollard.

1917 Zurich

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 11, as Portrait de Cézanne, en chapeau de feutre, lent by A.K[ann].

1926a Paris

Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2874, as Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même, lent by Kapferer.

1929 New York

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 2, ill., as Self Portrait, lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill.

1930 Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 121, ill., as Zelfportret, lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill, London.

1932 London

Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 516, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Lord Spencer, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 288.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 41, pl. I (dated 1878–80), as Cézanne au chapeau, lent Ivor Spencer Churchill.

1937 San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 12, ill. lent by Churchill.

1939d London

Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 22, ill. lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill.

1950b Paris

Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris, Oeuvres choisies du XIX^e siècle, May 22–July 5, 1950, no. 4, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.

1952 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 43, ill. lent by Bern. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.

1953 Amsterdam and traveling

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Van Gogh's grote tijdgenoten, Summer 1953, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne, 1878/83. Traveled to: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, Summer 1953.

1953 Bern

Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Europäische Kunst aus Berner Privatbesitz, July 31–September 20, 1953, no. 16.

1953–54 Bienne

Galerie des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Bienne, Bienne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'oeuvre des XIXe et XXe siècles, 1953–54, no. 20.

1954 Edinburgh and traveling

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 23, pl. I, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1880, lent by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Berne. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.

1956 Zurich

Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 40, pl. 17.

1956 Munich

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 28, lent by Kunstmuseum Bern.

1959 Paris

Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 18, pl. 29.

1961 Vienna

Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 14, pl. 11.

1967b Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 88, ill. lent by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bern.

1984 Madrid

Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 23.

1989 Basel

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 30, pl. 1.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 66, ill. shown in London and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.

2008 Humlebæk

Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 13, ill. p. 15, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord, lent by Kunstmuseum Bern.

2017 Martigny

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 83, ill. lent by Kunstmuseum, Berne.

Published References

Duret 1906

Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 172.

Bernard 1908a

Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 421, ill.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 208, listed.

Fegdal 1926

Fegdal, Charles. "Trente ans d'art indépendant (suite)." La Revue des beaux-arts (Paris) (Mars 15, 1926), p. 1, as Cézanne par lui-même.

Salmon 1926b

Salmon, André. "Le Salon des indépendants." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 29 (March 1, 1926), p. 161, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.

Amersfoortsch Dagblad 1930

"Onze illustraties." Amersfoortsch Dagblad: De Eemlander (Amersfoort), October 4, 1930, ill. p. 8, as Zelfportret.

Bazin 1932

Bazin, Germain. "La peinture française à l'exposition de Londres: Le XIXe siècle." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 1 (January 1932), fig. 114 p. 39, as Autoportrait.

Jamot 1932

Jamot, Paul. "French Painting - II." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 60, no. 346 (January 1932), fig. B, pl. XLVI p. (57], as Self Portrait.

Hazama, Adachi, and Nakogawa, eds. 1935

Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 2, Portraits et nus, pl. 7.

Iavorskaia 1935b

Iavorskaia, Nina. Paul Cézanne. Milan: Hoepli, 1935, ill. on cover.

L'Art sacré 1936

L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, ill. cover, as Cézanne au chapeau noir.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXII p. 94.

Huyghe 1936b

Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 45 p. 169, as Cézanne par lui-même, c. 1877.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 366, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.

Huyghe 1936d

Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 2.

Art News 1936a

"Cezanne's Paintings and Watercolors Exhibited in Fine One Man Loan Show at the Paris Orangerie." The Art News XXXIV, 39 (Aug. 15, 1936), p. 6, ill.

Slavíček 1937

Slavíček, Jan. "Zprávy a úvahy: Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) vol. 33, issue 1 (1937), ill. p. 5, as Vlastní podobizna.

Vollard 1937

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

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. 56, as Portrait de l'artiste.

Art Digest 1937b

"San Francisco Sees Cézanne's 'Little Sensation' in Great Exhibition." Art Digest 9, no. 20 (September 1, 1937), p. 6, ill.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 80, p. 205, ill. (analysis pp. 338–39, p. 338).

Lecuyer 1939

Lecuyer, Raymond. "Triomphe 1939 de Paul Cézanne." Le Figaro, supplément littéraire, Janvier 21, 1939, ill. p. 7, as Cézanne.

Vaudoyer 1947

Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, frontispiece.

Jedlicka 1948

Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 21, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.

Rewald 1948a

Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Theories about Art." Art News 47, no. 7 (November 1948), p. 30, ill.

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, pl. I, detail.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 14.

Rewald 1950a

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, pl. I.

Loran 1952

Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), p. 13, ill.

Sargent 1952

Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 77, ill.

Raynal 1954

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 59, ill.

Art et Style 1959

Chamson, André (introduction) and François Daulte (preface). Art et Style. 50, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre d'art français des collections Suisses. Paris, 1st trimester 1959, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as Autoportrait au chapeau.

Perruchot 1961

Perruchot, Henri. Dix Grands Peintres. Paris: Gauthier-Languereau, 1961, p. 475, ill.

Rewald 1961

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 475, ill.

Taillandier 1961

Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 31.

Beucken 1962

Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 65, ill.

Grünigen 1964

Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 24, fig. 28.

Guerry 1966

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 17.

Daulte 1967

Daulte, François. "Un siècle d'art français dans les collections suisses à l'Orangerie des Tuileries." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, no. 3 (1967), fig. 3 p. 146, as Autoportrait au chapeau.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 106.

Ramuz 1968

Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. Cézanne Formes. Lausanne: International Art Book, 1968, pl. 11.

Ikegami 1969

Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 25.

Andersen 1970

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 23, fig. 18.

Brion 1971

Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, frontispiece.

Huyghe 1971

Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 235, ill.

Erpel 1973

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1973, no. 6.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 46, ill.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 77, ill.

Plazy 1981

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 65.

Müller 1982

Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 14.

Bonafoux 1984

Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Peintres et l'autoportrait. Geneva: Skira, 1984, p. 121, ill.

Información Cultural 1984

"Cézanne, una exposición excepcional." Información Cultural (Madrid), no. 10 (March 1984), ill. p. 3.

Erpel 1988

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 11.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 105, ill. in color.

Plazy 1988

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, frontispiece.

Du 1989

"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), cover, p. 40, ill.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 103, fig. 86.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 169, ill.

Sollers 1995

Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 29, 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. 415, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.

Platzman 2001

Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 156–57, 197, fig. 12, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.

Dittmann 2005

Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 14.

Farber 2006

Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 37, ill. in color.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 127; vol. 2, p. 96, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.

Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017

Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 107, fig. 37.

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. 39.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 226, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.

Gloor 2021

Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 264, no. 176, fig. 176 p. 265, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.

Record last updated April 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord, 1879–80 (FWN 451)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=408 (accessed on April 18, 2024).