The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 467
Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne
c.1883
Alternate titles: Bildnis seiner Frau; Bildnisskizze seiner Frau; Esquisse pour un portrait de Madame Cézanne; Frauenkopf; Head of a Woman; Kopf Frau Cézanne; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait Madame Cézanne; Porträt Madame Cézanne ( Porträt Hortense)
Rewald (533): c.1883; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (533): 1883–85; Gowing: c.1881 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.3 x 14 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3991, Tête de femme, 22 x 14 (25 Fr)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 149, as Frauenkopf, lent by Flechtheim.
Hans Goltz, Munich, Neue Kunst, Erste Gesamt-Ausstellung, October 1912, no. 8a, as Bildnis seiner Frau, tentative identification, lent by Flechtheim?
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, Eröffnungskatalog, 1913, no number, ill., p. 58, as Bildnis seiner Frau.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 23, as Kopf Frau Cézanne, lent by Flechtheim.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 29, as Head of a Woman, c. 1885, lent by Mrs. V. Alport.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 28, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, c. 1881, lent by anonymous. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April 24–May 18, 1963, no. 23, ill. lent by Private collection.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, September 25, 2010–January 2, 2011, no. 72, ill., as Portrait Madame Cézanne, with comments by Gloria Groom.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1912, Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–December 30, 2012, no. 18, ill., pp. 340–41, as Porträt Madame Cézanne ( Porträt Hortense), lent by Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 39, ill. Private collection; shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 481, as Bildnisskizze seiner Frau, Private collection, Düsseldorf.
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, frontispiece, ill. ill. in color.
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, pl. 4.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 533, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 122.
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. 533, ill. vol. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 139, fig. 2, as Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne.
Helin, Saskia. "Cézanne in Hamburg." In Private Schätze: über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933. Hamburg: Christians, 2001, pp. 44-45, ill., as Portrait Madame Cézanne, 1883-85.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 188; vol. 2, p. 129, as Esquisse pour un portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 149, p. 556.
Dascher, Ottfried. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst" : Alfred Flechtheim - Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. vol. 6, Quellenstudien zur Kunst: eine Schriftenreihe der International Music and Art Foundation, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ed. [Wädenswil]: Nimbus, 2013, listed p. 420, ill. p. 63, as Frauenkopf.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Esquisse d'un portrait de madame Cezanne, c.1883 (FWN 467)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=523 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
