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Catalogue entry

FWN 528
L'Homme aux bras croisés
c.1899
Alternate titles: Homme assis; Homme aux bras croisés; L'Horloger; Man with crossed Arms; Man with Crossed Arms ( with Palette); Mann mit gekreutzten Armen; Portrait d'Homme; The Clock Maker; The Clockmaker
Rewald (851): c.1899; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (689): 1895–1900; Reff: c.1899 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 5/8 in. (92 x 72.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3451, huile;portrait de paysan assis les mains croisées; tonalité du tableau gris lilas, 92 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4059, Homme assis les bras croisés, 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. [444]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (July 8, 1912)
Frau Martha Reuther, Heidelberg
Galerie Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva
[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 17, 1953)]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Mar. 1, 1954)
Exhibition History
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 10, as Portrait d'Homme, lent by Vollard.
1912 St. Petersburg
Institut français, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, [Exposition centennale de l'art français, 1812-1912], opening January 15, no. 589, as Homme assis, lent by Vollard.
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 10, as Mann mit gekreutzten Armen.
1913a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 29, as Mann mit gekreutzten Armen.
1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 43, ill. lent by Guggenheim Museum.
1957–58 London and traveling
Tate Gallery, London, Paintings from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, April 16–May 26, 1957, no. 6. Traveled to: Gemeente Museum, The Hague, the Netherlands, June 25–September 1, 1957; Athenaeum Art Gallery, Helsinki, September 27–October 20, 1957; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, December 5, 1957–January 8, 1958; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, cologne, Mar. 1958, Cologne, March 1958; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, April 15–June 1, 1958.
1958 Rome
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Capolavori del Museo Guggenheim, 1958, no. 1, pl. 1.
1963b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
1977–78 New York and traveling
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. 6, pl. 13. 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).
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 179, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 27, ill., p. 80, as L'Homme aux bras croisés.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 33, ill., (dated 1890–99), shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 19, ill., p. 161, as L'Homme aux bras croisés, shown in Montclair and Baltimore only. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
2011–12 San Francisco and traveling
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 4, as Man with crossed Arms, c. 1899, lent by Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem; shown in New York only. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 129, ill.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 58, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 21.1, 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.
2019 Aix-en-Provence
Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Guggenheim: de Manet à Picasso, la collection Thannhauser, May 1–September 29, 2019, pp. 90-91, ill., as Homme aux bras croisés.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 119, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Waldmann 1913a
Waldmann, Emil. "Die Sammlung Reber." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 9 (1913), p. 450.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Bernard 1920b
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 271, as Portrait.
Venturi 1935b
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 405, fig. 23.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 689, ill. vol. II, as Homme aux bras croisés.
ARTNews 1954
"The Guggenheim's First Cézanne." Art News 53, no. 3 (May 1954), p. 42, p. 38, ill. and detail of man's head ill. in color, as The Clock Maker.
Ashton 1954
Ashton, Dore. "Guggenheim's New Cézanne." Art Digest 28 (April 15, 1954), cover, ill., p. 20.
Guggenheim Museum 1959
A Handbook to The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection. New York, 1959, p. 34, pl. 16, as The Clockmaker, 1895-1900.
Mathey 1959
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 180, ill., as L'Horloger.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 54, pl. 66.
Guggenheim Museum 1970
Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Collection 1900-1970. New York, 1970, pp. 64-65, ill., as The Clockmaker, 1895-1900.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 128.
Rudenstine 1976
Rudenstine, Angelica Zander. Collection Catalogue: Paintings, 1880–1945. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1976, no. 24, ill.
Barnett 1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. Handbook: The Guggenheim Museum Collection, 1900–1980. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1980, p. 26, ill.
Rewald 1996
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. 851, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme aux bras croisés.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 364; vol. 2, p. 234, as L'Homme aux bras croisés.
Geskó 2012a
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, cat. 129, ill., as Man with Crossed Arms ( with Palette).
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016e
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 137, ill.
Fontanella 2018
Fontanella, Megan et al. Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, p. 40, fig. 20.
Smith 2021
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 11.
Nagaï 2022a
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 20.
Record last updated October 13, 2022. 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 528)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=826 (accessed on April 18, 2024).