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Catalogue entry

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)
Stephen Mazoh, New York

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris;
Estate of Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Private collection
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 30, 1954, no. 23, ill.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson, Los Angeles
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena;
Parke-Bernet, New York, May 30, 1973, no. 27, ill.
Michael F. Drinkhouse, New York;
Christie's, New York, May 16, 1977, no. 34, ill.; bought in;
Parke-Bernet, New York, May 17, 1978, no. 18, ill.; bought in
Paul Kantor, Los Angeles
Sotheby's, New York, May 15–16, 1984, no. 41, ill.; bought in
Stephen Mazoh, New York
Exhibition History
1953 Grenoble
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, 1953.
1969–70 Phoenix
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1969–70.
1970–73 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1970–73.
1983b New York
Stephen Mazoh Gallery, New York, Twentieth Century Works of Art, November 1–December 31, 1983, no. 2, ill.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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).
2014–15b New York
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.
2016 New York
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.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 181, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 224, Stephen Mazoh and Martin Kline.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1611, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de femme.
Wadley 1991
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, p. 75, fig. 84.
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. 898, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de femme.
Benesch 2000
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 2008
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 2009
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 July 5, 2022. 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 April 19, 2024).