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)
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FWN 529
Portrait de l'artiste au béret
1898–1900
Alternate titles: Autoritrarro con berretto; Autoritratto; Cézanne à la barbiche; Cézanne au bérêt basque; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait du peintre; Selbstporträt mit Baret; Self Portrait; Self-Portrait with a Beret
Rewald (834): 1898–1900; Venturi revised: 1899–1900; Venturi (693): 1898–1900; Rivière: c.1900; Cooper: c.1901; Gowing: c.1902 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: not before 1898; Reff: 1898 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 20 in. (63.3 x 50.8 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 204, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1898
Provenance
Exhibition History
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 25, (dated 1898), as Autoritratto, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 31, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne, lent by Fabbri.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 4, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Self Portrait, lent by Robert Treat Paine.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 30, (dated c. 1890), as Self Portrait, lent by Paine.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, no. 13, pl. VII.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as Cézanne à la barbiche, lent by Metcalfe.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 61, pl. XI, as Cézanne à la barbiche, c. 1901, lent by Mrs. T. Metcalfe. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 30, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Impressionism, June 15–October 14, 1973.
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. 3, pl. 5. 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. 4, ill.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 66, pl. 176.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 67, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au béret, 1898-1900, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au béret. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, fig. 31, p. 106, ill., 265, as Portrait de l'artiste au béret.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 17, ill., p. 159 (dated c. 1898–99, size: 641 x 533 cm), as Portrait de l'artiste au béret. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
Palazzo Sums, San Marino, Monet, Cézanne, Renoir e altre storie di pittura in Francia, October 23, 2010–March 27, 2011, pp. 78-79, ill., as Autoritrarro con berretto, c. 1898-1899.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 59, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 22.1, 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.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, MFA Boston Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Paul Cézanne Influence, March 13–October 17, 2021.
Published References
Pica, Vittorio. Gl'Impressionisti Francesi. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1908, p. 195, ill., as Autoritratto.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 206.
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 64, as Autoritratto, 1898.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 248.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed, ill. p. 83, as Portrait de Cézanne.
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 344, as Portrait de Cézanne, 1898.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. CV.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 9], as Portrait de Cézanne, 1898.
"Au Musée d'Art moderne de New-York." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 12 (December 20,1929), ill. p. 8, as Portrait du peintre.
Rocheblave, Samuel. La Peinture française au XIXe siècle. Paris: Éditions Hypérion, 1936, p. 26, ill.
Rewald, John. "Iconographie de Cézanne: vu par lui-même." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 10 p. 160, as Cézanne au bérêt basque, 1898.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 693, ill. vol. II, as Cézanne à la barbiche.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 137, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 76, as Portrait de l'artiste, 1898-1900.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 49, as Portrait de l'artiste au béret.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, frontispiece, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 28, as Selbstporträt mit Baret, c. 1900.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 28.
Wallis, Nevile. "Cézanne: A Pioneer of Modern Painting." Connoisseur 134 (December 1954), p. 206, ill.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 144, ill.
"Some Recent Accessions." Bulletin: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 70, nos. 361–362 (1972), pp. 128–29, ill.
"Boston Museum Gets Cézanne Self-Portrait." New York Times, November 2, 1972, p. 49.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), p. 17, fig. 18.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 59.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 242.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 225, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 25, fig. 6.
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. 834, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au béret.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 138, 199, fig. 26, as Portrait de l'artiste au béret.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 31.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 365; vol. 2, p. 234, as Portrait de l'artiste au béret.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne Crosses the Atlantic: Vollard and American Collections." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, pl. 17 (detail).
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 200, fig. 139.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 191 p. 200.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 97.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, p. 363, ill., as Self-Portrait with a Beret.
Record last updated March 9, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste au béret, 1898–1900 (FWN 529)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=809 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
