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 516
Portrait de Gustave Geffroy
1895–96
Alternate titles: Bildnis des Schriftstellers Geffroy; Bildnis Geffroys; Der Kritiker Geffroy; Gustave Geffroy; Gustave Geffroy dans sa bibliothèque; La bibliothèque; Portrait de Geffroy; Portrait de M. Gustave Geffroy; Portrait of Gustave Geffroy; Portrait of M. Geffroy; Porträt Gustave Geffroy
Rewald (791): 1895–96; Venturi revised: 1895; Venturi (692): 1895; Rivière: 1895; Vollard: 1890; Cooper: between April and July 1895; Ratcliffe: 1895–96; Reff: 1895–96 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
45 11/16 x 35 in. (116 x 89 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 393, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition d’œuvres de l'école impressionniste, April 2–25, 1903, no. 9, as La bibliothèque, lent by Gustave Geffroy.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 16, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, lent by Pellerin.
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no. 19, as Portrait de M. Gustave Geffroy.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 93, pl. VI, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, lent by Lecomte.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 60, pl. XXVI, lent by private collection, Paris.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Gustave Geffroy et l'art moderne, January 10–March 2, 1957, no. 101, ill., cover, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1893, lent by Private collection.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 45, ill. in b/w, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1896.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 1, pl. 1. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 1, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 172, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 22, ill., p. 114, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Hanagaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea, De Millet à Bonnard: la création picturale dans les collections du Musée d’Orsay (1848-1914), April 4–September 2, 2007, p. 60, ill. p. 61, as Gustave Geffroy.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 38, ill., as Gustave Geffroy.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 38, ill., as Gustave Geffroy.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 29, ill., as Gustave Geffroy.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay, October 19, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 69, ill., pp. 240–43, as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 49, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 17.1, 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.
Musée d'arts, Nantes, France, Nantes 1886: Le scandale impressionniste, October 12, 2018–January 13, 2019, no. 33, ill., as Gustave Geffroy, c. 1895-96.
Published References
Leclerq, Julien. "Petites expositions: Galerie Vollard." La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 36 (November 25, 1899), p. 331.
Klossowski, Erich. "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen: Paris." Die Kunst für Alle 18, no. 16 (May 15, 1903), p. 392.
"Revue artistique: petites expositions." Revue universelle 3 (1903), p. 530, as Gustave Geffroy.
Schmidt, Karl Eugen. "Pariser Brief." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge, XIV, no. 28 (June 5, 1903), col. 448, as Bildnis des Schriftstellers Gustave Geffroy.
Vallotton, Félix. "Au Salon d'Automne." Grande Revue 44 (October 25, 1907), p. 917, mentioned.
Alexandre, Arsène. "Exposition d'art moderne à l'Hôtel de la revue 'Les Arts.'" Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions, no. 128 (August 1912), ill. p. X, no. 2, as Portrait de M. Gustave Geffroy.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 230, ill., as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 188, as Der Kritiker Geffroy.
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 265, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, [photo B-J].
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 128, as Bildnis Geffroys, dated 1890.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 43, pl. p. 42, as Gustave Geffroy.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 230, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 14, as Porträt Gustave Geffroy, c. 1890.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 18, as Portrait de M. Gustave Geffroy.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 220, listed, ill. opp. p. 98, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, dated 1895, Pellerin.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 495, as Bildnis des Schriftstellers Geffroy.
Rivière, Georges. "La formation de Paul Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 15 (August 1, 1925), p. 2, ill., as Portrait de M. Gustave Geffroy.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 409, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 69, pl. [14] hors texte, as Gustave Geffroy.
Gauthier, Maximilien. "Gustave Geffroy aux Gobelins." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 32 (April 15, 1926), p. 283, ill., as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
"Les disparus: Gustave Geffroy." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 7, no. 8 (April 15, 1926), ill. p. 122.
Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 289.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 114, as Bildnis Geffroys.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 69–71, fig. 35, pl. XXV.
Fry, Roger. "In Praise of Cézanne." Review of Cézanne, by Julius Meier-Graefe. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 52, no. 299 (February 1928), p. 99, as Portrait of Geoffroy [sic].
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 11], as Gustave Geffroy dans sa bibliothèque.
Itten, Johannes. "Studien zu alten Meistern." Das Kunstblatt 15, no. 12 (December 1931), p. 336, ill., as Porträt Gustave Geffroy.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 147, ill.
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 15, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 24 p. 24, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 70 p. 182, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 692, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
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), pp. 55 and 56, as Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 144, p. 253, ill. (analysis pp. 385–87).
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 64.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 155, ill.
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 67, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 74, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 46, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951, vol. II, pl. LXII.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p.69, pl. XXV fig. 35, as Portrait of M. Geffroy.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Anblick und Erlebnis: Bildbetrachtungen. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1955, pp. 166–81, ill. opp. p. 176.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 1, with photograph of subject.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 63, ill.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1225 (February 1971), p. 20, no. 87, ill., as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 37, with comments.
Adhémar, Hélène. "Cézanne dans les collections des musées nationaux." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, no. 3 (1974), fig. 5 p. 218, as Gustave Geffroy, 1895.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 15, ill.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 54.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol.1, ill. p. 239.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 72, ill. in color.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 42.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 170, ill.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 111, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 168, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 93, ill.
Skedsmo, Tone. "Omkring et portrett malt av Paul Cézanne." Kunst og Kultur,, no. 1 (1991), fig. 9.
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. "La difficile recherche d'un nouvel espace." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 70 and 71, 1895.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 27, 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. 791, ill. vol. 2 and p. 42, ill. col. vol. 1, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Movement, Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 9.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, fig. 22, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Maloon, Terence. "Tableau/Peinture: Critical Responses to Cézanne's Unfinished Works." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 93, fig. 6, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 218, ill. in b/w.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 234, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 60, fig. 22, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, dated 1895.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 9; vol. 2, p. 23, as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Beechey, James. "Picasso Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence." The Burlington Magazine 151, no. 1280 (November 2009), p. 795, fig. 63, as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, 1895-98.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 117, ill. p. 158.
Alsdorf, Bridget. "Interior Landscapes: Metaphor And Meaning In Cézanne's Late Still Lifes." Word & Image 26 (2010), p. 321, fig. 8.
Shiff, Richard. "He Painted." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 76, fig. 44.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Les portraits de grand format." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 129, fig. 61, as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
Machotka, Pavel. "I ritratti di Cézanne: il volto umano della grande pitura." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 80, fig. 49.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45. fig. 16, p. 34 (detail), as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 265, ill.
Chiappini, Rudy. "I temi prediletti del padre della modernità." In Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 99, fig. 3.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 108, pl. 28.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 4.
Freudenberg, Inken. "The Chimerical Pursuit of Art, Paul Cézanne and Gustave Flaubert: An Affinity Explored." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Shiff, Richard. "Mimetic Cézanne." 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. 2.
Lobstein, Dominique. "'La portée d'une révélation' La réception critique de l'exposition Cézanne au Salon d'automne de 1904." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, fig. 2.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 48.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 214, ill., as Portrait de Gustave Geffroy.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 62.
Elderfield, John. "Dr. Barnes's Cézanne." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, fig. 10, as Portrait of Gustave Geffroy.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cezanne and Constructivism, Historiography." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 8.
Record last updated May 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Gustave Geffroy, 1895–96 (FWN 516)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=768 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
