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 465
Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge
1881–82 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste; Portrait du fils de l'artiste; Portrait of Paul Cézanne, the Artist's Son; Portrait of the Artist's Son
Rewald (465): 1881–82 (possibly later); Venturi revised: 1885–87; Venturi (535): 1883–85; Rivière: c.1885; Machotka et al: 1883–84
Oil on canvas
13 3/8 x 14 13/16 in. (34 x 37.5 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 462, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877
Provenance
Exhibition History
Théâtre de l'Est Parisien, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'impressionnisme, 1966, no. 7, ill. in color.
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 7, ill. in color.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 30. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 32, ill. in b/w, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1880.
Musée du Prieuré, Saint Germain-en-Laye, France, Le Chemin de Gauguin, October 7, 1985–March 2, 1986, no. 40, ill., p. 33.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 85, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 8, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 24, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1880. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 2, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 92–93, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 69, ill., as Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay, October 19, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 43, ill., pp. 160–63, as Portrait of the Artist's Son.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 26, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 9.2, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 4, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 37, ill. 1880. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne/Renoir, Capolovori dal Musée de l'Orangerie, March 19–June 30, 2024, no. 18, ill. Traveled to: Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, France, July 13–November 19, 2024 (Titled: Cézanne - Renoir, Regards croisés); Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, January 17–May 7, 2025; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, May 29–September 7, 2025; Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, September 20, 2025–January 25, 2026.
Published References
Dormoy, Marie. "Quelques tableaux de la collection particulière Ambroise Vollard." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 17 (September 1931), ill. between pp. 122 and 113.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 390, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 535, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 7, ill. in color, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 15 p. 106.
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 26, no. 7, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 26–27, no. 7, ill., as Portrait of the Artist's Son.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 95, ill. in color.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 9, ill.
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. 465, ill. vol. 2, as Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Movement, Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, fig. 6.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 109, fig. 10, as Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge.
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. 188, ill.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 185; vol. 2, p. 128, as Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne." In 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, edited by Barbara Schaefer. Cologne: Wienend Verlag, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 93, fig. 8.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 14, as Portrait of Paul Cézanne, the Artist's Son.
Shiff, Richard. "Morality, Materiality, Apples." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, fig. 13, as Portrait of the Artist's Son.
Geskó, Judit. "Cézanne: Past / Present / Future." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 7.
Shiff, Richard. "Reanimation." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 7.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 84, 1881-82.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 7.
Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Fils de l'artiste au fauteuil rouge, 1881–82 (possibly later) (FWN 465)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=456 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
