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Self-Portrait

Artist Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)
Dateca. 1898
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 11 inches (32.7 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis
Object number53-23
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Print Exhibition, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, KS, April 27–May 4, 1958, no cat.

 

Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, November 1–13, 1959, no cat.

 

exhibition, Albrecht Art Gallery, St. Joseph, MO, September 18–October 19, 1966, no cat.

 

Crowning Glory: Millinery in Paris, 1880–1905, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 3, 2022–December 2023, no cat.

Gallery Label
In this lithograph (a type of print), Cezanne depicts himself wearing an inexpensive beret before an easel. His hat associates him with both rural life and other artists, like 1600s Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt and Cezanne’s friend Claude Monet, who wore berets in their own self-portraits. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned this print after he hosted Cezanne’s first solo exhibition in 1895, when the artist was 56. Cezanne was largely unknown before Vollard gave him this opportunity.
Provenance

Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];

Given by Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948–56) and then director (1956–59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January–May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.

Published References

Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne (Paris: Galerie A. Vollard, 1914), 90, (repro.).

 

Julius Meier-Graefe, Cézanne und sein Kreis, 3rd ed. (Munich: R. Piper, 1922), frontispiece, (repro.).

 

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre, vol. 1 (Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1936), no. 1158, p. 287, as Portrait de Cezanne.

 

Charles Sterling, Cézanne, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée de l’Orangerie, 1936), no. 194, p. 155, as Cézanne au Béret devant le Chevalet.

 

Wayne Andersen, Cézanne’s Portrait Drawings (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970), no. 24, pp. 39, 43n17, 69, (repro.), as Self-portrait.

 

Jean Cherpin, L’Œuvre gravé de Cézanne (Marseille, France: Arts et Livres de Provence, 1972), no. 8, p. 69, (repro.), as Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même.

 

Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur: Prints, Books, Bronzes, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), 130, as Portrait de Cézanne.

 

George L. McKenna, Prints, 14601995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 295, as Self-Portrait.

 

Steven Platzman, Cezanne, The Self-Portraits (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), no. 26, p. 205, as Self-Portrait.

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