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 527
L'Homme aux bras croisés
c.1899
Alternate titles: Der Mann mit den untergeschlagenen Armen; Der Mann mit verschränkten Armen; Hombre de brazos cruzados; Homme aux bras croisés; Man met gekruiste armen; Man with crossed arms; Man with Folded Arms; Mann mit gekreutzen Armen; Mann mit verschränkten Armen; Männliches Bildnis; Portrait de paysan
Rewald (850): c.1899; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (685): 1895–1900; Ratcliffe: c.1899 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 28 5/8 in. (90.2 x 72.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3482, huile; portrait de paysan assis les mains croisées, sur un fond gris bleu, 92 x 73 cm (250 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 444 and 453, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1894
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 10, as Männliches Bildnis.
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 144, pl. 22, as Mann mit verschränkten Armen, lent by Tilla Durieux-Cassirer.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Modern French Art, January 9–February 1, 1925, no. 8.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 9, ill., as Der Mann mit den untergeschlagenen Armen.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 49, ill., as Mann mit gekreutzen Armen, c. 1895, lent by Private collection.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 33, ill., as L'Homme aux bras croisés, lent by O. Federer.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, La Pintura francesca: de David a nuestros días, July 18–August 1939, no. 12, as Hombre de brazos cruzados, c. 1900-1902, lent by O. Federer, Moravska Ostrava. Traveled to: Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina Republic, August 31–September 10, 1939; Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 1940; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1940.
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 238, ill., as Man with crossed arms, lent by teh Gallery St. Etienne, New York.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 7.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Functions of Colors in Painting, February 16–March 23, 1941, no number.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 19, ill. lent by anon.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 56, ill. lent by Mitchell.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland, November–December 1951, no. 150, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 80, ill. lent by Mitchell. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, April 25–May 24, 1959, listed p. 30, ill., as Man with crossed arms, 1895-1900, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Mitchell.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 43, ill. lent by Mitchell.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 75, ill., as Homme aux bras croisés, 1895-1900, lent by Cdr. and Mrs. Carleton Mitchell.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 28. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
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. 5, pl. 12. 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. 6, ill.
Neue Galerie, New York, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, October 27, 2011–April 2, 2012, p. 236, fig. 100, p. 24, fig. 1.
Published References
Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned.
Welt-Spiegel. "Die Cézanne-Ausstellung im Salon Cassirer, Berlin." Welt-Spiegel, April 25, 1912, No. 33.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 200.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 242.
H.K.F. "Paintings of Famous French Artists Shown here." The Sun (Baltimore), Jan. 18, 1925, ill. p. 2, as Man with Folded Arms.
"Impressionisten-Ausstellung bei Paul Cassirer." Der Querschnitt 5, no. 11 (November 1925), ill. between pp. 960 and 961, as Der Mann mit verschränkten Armen.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCVII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 685, ill. vol. II, as Homme aux bras croisés.
Beerends, Jan. "Oorspronkelijkheid en Traditie: Hondered jaar Fransche kunst." Het R.K. bouwblad 10, no. 4 (September 15, 1938), ill. p. 55, as Man met gekruiste armen.
"Les expositions [Buenos Aires]." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 339 (June 30, 1939), ill. p. 2, as Portrait de paysan.
Newberry, John Stoughton. "The Age of Impressionism and Realism." Art News 38, no. 31 (May 4, 1940), p. 13, ill.
"Cézanne Gem." San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco), September 15, 1940, section D, p. 11, ill., as Man with crossed arms.
"Important Cézanne Survey Staged as Benefit for Fighting French." Art Digest 17, no. 5 (December 1, 1942), p. 5, ill.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 90–91, pl. XIX.
Gibbs, Jo. "Cézanne, Father of Modernism, Gives Comprehensive New York Show." Art Digest 21, no. 13 (April 1, 1947), p. 10, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 64, as Homme aux bras croisés, 1885-90.
Breeskin, Adelyn. "Three Generations of Buying French in Baltimore." Art News 50, no. 8 (December 1951), p. 65, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, pp. 88, 89 (detail).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 61, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 426, fig. 1.
Wittenberg, Stella. "La mirada que pinta. Escritura y pintura en Peter Handke." La Balsa de la Medusa 35 (1995), fig. 2 p. 25, as L'Homme aux bras croisés .
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. 850, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme aux bras croisés .
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. 104, ill. p. 139.
Lauder, Ronald S. The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, Germany, Austria, and France. Munich and London and New York: Prestel, 2011, p. 236, pl. 100.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 144, 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. 563, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 215, fig. 63.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 74.
Record last updated June 15, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme aux bras croisés, c.1899 (FWN 527)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=825 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
