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Catalogue entry

FWN 462
Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre
1880–81
Alternate titles: Autoretrat; Cézanne; Cézanne chauve; Cézanne vu par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne chauve; Portrait de Cezanne or Paul Cezanne chauve; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Portrait of the Artist; Selbstbildnis; Self Portrait; Self Portrait ('Cézanne Chauve')
Rewald (482): 1880–81; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (365): 1879–82; Cooper: 1880–82 (Courtauld); Gowing: c.1879 (Edinburgh) and 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
13 3/16 x 10 3/16 in. (33.6 x 26 cm)
National Gallery, London (NG 4135)

Keywords

Provenance
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased from the artist in 1902)
Percy Moore Turner, London
Tate Gallery, London (Trustees of the Courtauld Fund) (December 1925);
National Gallery, London (1961)
Exhibition History
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 15, as Portrait de Cézanne, lent by Private collection.
1917 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 36, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1925a London
Independent Gallery, London, A Few Masterpieces of French Painting: Ingres to Cézanne, May 18–June 6, 1925, no. 2, as Portrait de Cézanne chauve.
1926a London
National Gallery (Tate Gallery), Millbank, London, Modern Foreign School, June 26–October 10, 1926, no. 4135, as Cézanne chauve, Presented by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund, 1926.
1948 London
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 7, as Self Portrait ('Cézanne Chauve'), c. 1880-82.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 21, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, c. 1879, lent by the Tate Gallery. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
1955b Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 5, pl. 42.
1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 1, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre.
1999–2000 London
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 26, fig. 1 p. 8, as Self Portrait, 1879.
2006–07 London
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 19, ill., (dated c. 1880–81, size: 34.7 x 27 cm), as Self Portrait.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 5, ill., p. 22, as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre, lent by National Gallery, London.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 25, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 8.1, 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.
Published References
Borgmeyer 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 271, ill., as Self Portrait, Collection Pellerin.
Bernheim-Jeune 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXII.
Sacs 1914
Sacs, Joan. "Les natures-mortes den Pau Cézanne." Revista nova (Barcelona) Year I, no. 22 (September 3, 1914), ill. cover (cropped), as Autoretrat, Private collection.
Bernheim 1917
MM. Bernheim-Jeune. "Publications de la maison Bernheim-Jeune." In Exposition de peinture moderne. Paris: MM. Bernheim-Jeune et Cie, 1917. Exhibition catalogue, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 14.
Vauvrecy and Cezanne 1920
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 131.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 2.
Gasquet 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. (color) p. 126, as Cézanne.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 9.
Earp 1926
Earp, T.W. "Modern French Painting at the Tate Gallery." Apollo 4, no. 20 (August 1926), p. 79, ill.
Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 395, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, frontispiece.
Manson 1926
Manson, James Bolivar. "The Courtauld Collection." Apollo 3 (February 1926), p. 92, ill.
Preston 1926
Preston, W.E. Hayter. "The Courtauld Collection." Studio 91, no. 396 (March 1926), p. 187, ill.
Tatlock 1926
Tatlock, R.R. "The Courtauld Trust." Art News 24 (June 12, 1926), p. 6, ill., as Cézanne chauve.
Tatlock 1926a
Tatlock, R.R. "The Courtauld Trust." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 48, no. 275 (February, 1926), pp. 57-58, fig.B pl. II, as Cézanne chauve.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 39, as Selbstbildnis.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 55–57, fig. 47, pl. XXXVI.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXIX.
Meier-Graefe 1928
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in der Tate Gallery." Der Cicerone 20, no. 12 (1928), p. 394.
Tietze 1928b
Tietze, Hans. "Französische Bilder des XIX. Jahrhunderts in der Londoner Nationalgalerie." Kunst und Künstler 26, no. 2 (1928), p. 65.
Ede 1930
Ede, H.S. "La Peinture française à la National Modern Foreign Gallery de Londres." Cahiers d'Art, no. 7 (1930), p. 357, ill.
Peschcke-Koedt 1933
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Statusopgorelse i Malerkunsten." Samleren 10 (December 1933), p. 189, ill.
Mack 1935
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 27.
Gual 1936
Gual, Enric F. "A París han exagerat." Mirador (Barcelona), August 13, 1936, ill. p. 7, as Autoretrat.
Rewald 1936b
Rewald, John. "Iconographie de Cézanne: vu par lui-même." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 4 p. 160, as Cézanne vu par lui-même, c. 1880.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 365, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Laver 1937
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, pl. 92.
Gasch 1938
Gasch, Sebastià. "La tragedia de Cézanne." Meridià (Barcelona), February 18, 1938, ill. p. 4.
Gaunt 1938
Gaunt, William. "Paul Cézanne: An Essay in Valuation of the Ideals and Achievements of the Greatest Amateur of an Amateur Age in Painting." Studio 116, no. 564 (September 1938), p. 146, ill.
Mack 1938
Mack, Gerstle. La Vie de Paul Cézanne. Translated by Nancy Bouwens. Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ill. opp. p. 201.
Mellquist 1943
Mellquist, Jerome. "The Armory Show Thirty Years Later." Magazine of Art 36 (December 1943), p. 298, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 61, listed pp. 153-154 (quote from Rilke's letter does not apply to this picture).
Rothenstein 1949
Rothenstein, John. Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery. London: Trustees of the Tate Gallery, 1949, pl. 61.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 55, pl. XXXVI fig. 47, as Portrait of the Artist.
Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 52–53, ill.
Cooper 1954b
Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London: Athlone Press, 1954, no. 8, pl. 6.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 189.
Alley 1959
Alley, Ronald. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London: Tate Gallery, 1959, p. 32, pl. 3, as Self Portrait.
Uchida 1960
Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 27, ill.
Dobai 1961
Dobai, Johannes. "Über das Verhältnis Cézannes zu seinen Vorbildern." Du 21 (May 1961), p. 15, ill.
Levey 1962
Levey, Michael. A Concise History of Paintings: From Giotto to Cézanne. London: Praeger, 1962, fig. 545.
Sutton 1964
Sutton, Denys. "Editorial: A Shock for the Troops." Apollo 80 (October 1964), cover plate.
Leonhard 1966
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 142, ill.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 106.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 27, fig. 22.
Davies 1970
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc. Revised by Cecil Gould. London: National Gallery, 1970, pp. 17–18, no. 4135.
Huyghe 1971
Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 234, ill.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 11 (with comments).
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 32.
Stokes 1978
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, commentary p. 272, fig. 103.
Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 7, ill. in color.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 131.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 134, ill.
Thomas 1987
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 158, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 87, ill.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 78, ill. in color.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 39, ill. in color.
Reed 1990
Reed, Christopher. "The Fry Collection at the Courtauld Institute Galleries." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1052 (November 1990), p. 768, with an illustration of Roger Fry's copy of Cezanne's self-portrait from 1925, p. 769 fig. 10.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 73.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 96, fig. 79.
Baker and Henry 1995
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 107, ill., as Self Portrait, c. 1880.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 185, 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. 482, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, cover; p. 183, fig. 115.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 180, 197, fig. 14, as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre.
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. 19 (detail), 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. 190, ill.
Brettell and Eisenmann 2006
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, p. 298, fig. 80b, as Self Portrait.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 182; vol. 2, p. 127, as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre.
Reissner 2008
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 4, pl. 2.
Cézanne 2011
Cézanne, Philippe. "Paul Cézanne: L'homme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 22, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre.
Machotka 2011b
Machotka, Pavel. "I ritratti di Cézanne: il volto umano della grande pitura." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, fig. 53.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 205, pl. 92.
Simms 2014a
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Painting, and Harmony." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 135 and 136, fig. 83.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 59.
Salmon 2018
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 462.
Salmon 2019
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 25, ill.
Serres et al 2019
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 6, fig. 6.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 225, ill., as Portrait de Cezanne or Paul Cezanne chauve (installation photograph from1914 exhibition, p. 102).
Notes

For a discussion of the wallpaper background, see Rewald (1996, pp. 320–21). Roger Fry made a painted copy of this portrait.

Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre, 1880–81 (FWN 462). Roger Fry, Copy after a Self-Portrait by Cézanne, 1926, oil on board, 35.8 x 28.6 cm. The Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust; Roger Fry Bequest, 1935)
Roger Fry, Copy after a Self-Portrait by Cézanne, 1926, oil on board, 35.8 x 28.6 cm. The Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust; Roger Fry Bequest, 1935)
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste au papier peint olivâtre, 1880–81 (FWN 462)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=471 (accessed on April 18, 2024).