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 539
Portrait de femme (Madame Cezanne?)
1902–06
Alternate titles: Portrait de femme; Portrait of a woman; Portrait of a Woman (Madame Cézanne?)
Rewald (898): 1902–06; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (1611): 1895–1900
Oil on canvas
25 3/16 x 20 7/8 in. (64 x 53 cm)
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, 1953.
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1969–70.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1970–73.
Stephen Mazoh Gallery, New York, Twentieth Century Works of Art, November 1–December 31, 1983, no. 2, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 33, ill., as Portrait de femme, lent by Stephen Mazoh. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 12, as Portrait of a Woman (Madame Cézanne?), lent by Stephen Mazoh.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Unfinished: Thoughts left visible, March 18–September 4, 2016, p. 164, pl. 122, as Portrait of a woman, text p. 280-1.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 181, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 224, Stephen Mazoh and Martin Kline.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1611, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de femme.
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, p. 75, fig. 84.
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. 898, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de femme.
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. 43, fig. 2, as Portrait de femme.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 373; vol. 2, p. 238, as Portrait de femme.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 204, fig. 60, as Portrait de femme, dated c. 1895–1900.
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Record last updated August 9, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de femme (Madame Cezanne?), 1902–06 (FWN 539)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=872 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
