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 512
Le Liseur
c.1894
Alternate titles: A Youngster with a Book; Junger lesender Mann; Knabe im Hut mit aufgeschlagenem Buch; Le liseur; Sitzender Mann mit Buch; Young Man Reading
Rewald (788): c.1894; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (678): 1894–96; Vollard: 1896
Oil on canvas
32 5/16 x 26 in. (82 x 66 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3763, huile; portrait d'homme en gris tenant dans les mains un livre ouvert, 81 x 65 cm (200 frs)
Private Collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 21, as Le Liseur, tentative identification.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 9, as Junger lesender Mann, lent by Vollard.
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 143, as Knabe im Hut mit aufgeschlagenem Buch, lent by Vollard?)
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 12, as Sitzender Mann mit Buch, tentative identification.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Inaugural Exposition of French Art, 1924–25, no. 4, (section: Painting: Retrospective Exposition), as Young Man Reading, lent by Private collection.
Musée National, Tokyo, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art de l'occident, 1947.
Galerie Fujikawa, Osaka, Japan, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture européenne, 1953, no. 12, ill.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Masterpieces of the ex-Matsukata Collection, May 14–July 10, 1960, no. 8, ill.
Isetan [Department Store], Tokyo, Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, March 1–17, 1963, no. 1, ill.
Published References
Gold, Alfred. "Kunst und Sammler in Dänemark und Skandinavien." Der Cicerone 12, no. 24 (1920), p. 872.
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 332, ill.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 9 (no.12), as Le liseur, 1885.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 678, ill. vol. II, as Le Liseur.
Lee, Sherman E. "Occupied Japan: First Report." Art News 46, no. 12 (February 1948), p. 53, ill. p. 19.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 6.
Boas, Nancy. The Society of Six: California Colorists. San Francisco, 1988, pp. 102, 199, note 3.
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Connection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, no. 93, 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. 788, ill. vol. 2, as Le Liseur.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 143, p. 556.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 564, ill.
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 1, Paintings. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 126, no. 228, ill., as A Youngster with a Book.
Record last updated February 2, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Liseur, c.1894 (FWN 512)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=765 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
