The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 531
Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard
1899
Alternate titles: Ambroise Vollard; Ambroise Vollard in Dreiviertelfigur, sitzend; Bildnis Vollard; Mon Portrait; Portrait de M. Ambroise Vollard; Portrait de Vollard; Portrait of Ambroise Vollard; Portrait of Vollard; Porträt Ambroise Vollard; Ritratto di Ambroise Vollard; Vollard
Rewald: (811) 1899; Venturi revised: 1899; Venturi: (696) 1899; Rivière: 1899; Vollard: 1899
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 32 5/16 in. (100 x 82 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7031, Mon portrait, 100 x 81 cm
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 101, pl. VIII, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard, lent by Vollard.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 22, ill. lent by Vollard.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January, 1937.
Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, May 29–September 30, 1948, no. 47, ill., as Ritratto di Ambroise Vollard, 1899, lent by Petit Palais, Paris.
Petit Palais, Paris, Un siècle d'art français, 1850–1950, 1953, no. 445, ill., pl. 39, as Ambroise Vollard, 1899.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Capolavori dell' Ottocento francese, 1955, no. 11, fig. 89.
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, Les Sources du XXe siècle: les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 4, 1960–January 23, 1961, no. 85, as Portrait de Vollard, 1896-99, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Taste of Paris: from Poussin to Picasso, October 5–December 1, 1968, ill., listed on p. 55, as Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800–1900, July 3–September 7, 1969, no. 11, ill., as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 51. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974. Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
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. 4, pl. 4. 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. 3, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 23, ill.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 23, ill. 1899. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 177, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, Die großen Sammlungen VII: Von Ingres bis Cézanne, Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung des Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, May 27–September 27, 1998, no. 194, ill., as Porträt Ambroise Vollard.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 26, ill., p. 64, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 31, ill., as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 233, ill. p. 28, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard, (not shown).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 47, fig. 4, pp. 5, 344, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 72, ill., p. 177, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard, lent by Petit Palais.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 67, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 149, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 55, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 20.2, 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.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 51 as Mon Portrait.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 112 as Bildnis Vollard, dated 1899.
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pp. 42–44.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 124.
"Les derniers jours de l'exposition Cézanne: la causerie d'Ambroise Vollard." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 7, no. 13 (July 1, 1926), ill. p. 197 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 119 as Bildnis Vollard, 1899.
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 38.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Minotaure 2, no. 6 (1935), p. 14, ill.
Art Digest (Nov. 15, 1936), p. 7, ill. as Ambroise Vollard.
Bourgeois, Stephan. "Vivid Panorama of Cézanne." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 8, ill.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, Pl. 15.
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 49.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 79 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXVIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 696, ill. vol. II as Portrait de M. Ambroise Vollard.
Chadourne, Paul. "La vie des Arts: « Souvenir d'un marchand de tableaux »." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire littéraire illustré (Paris) (December 2, 1937), ill. p. 7 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 81.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 1, pp. 91–107.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55 as Ambroise Vollard.
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 158, p. 263, ill. (analysis p. 390).
Chambrillac, René. "Ambroise Vollard, le marchand de tableaux du siècle." Paris-soir (Paris) (July 29, 1939), ill. p. 4 as Vollard.
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 48, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 423, ill.
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 31.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 75 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard, 1899.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 157, listed p. 172.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 35 as Portrait de M. Ambroise Vollard.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 92.
Jourdain, Francis. Cézanne. Paris: Braun, 1950, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. "Cézanne als Zeichner." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 14 (1950), pp. 232, 236, fig. 119.
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 73.
Buddenberg, Else. "Rilkes Cezanne Begegnung.Zum 25. Todestag von Rainer Maria Rilke." Das Kunstwerk: Zeitschrift für moderne Kunst 5, no. 4 (1951), p. 40, ill.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 81, ill.
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 268-69.
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 32.
Denis, Maurice. Journal, vol. 2 (1905–20). Paris: La Colombe, 1957, p. 157, quoted above (original entry of Oct. 21, 1899).
Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 124, ill. as Ambroise Vollard.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 35.
Perruchot, Henri. Dix Grands Peintres. Paris: Gauthier-Languereau, 1961, p. 142.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 574, ill.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 18, 54–55, pl. 70.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 67, ill.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. XI.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 157.
Novotny, Fritz. Über das "Elementare" in der Kunstgeschichte und andere Aufsätze. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum, 1968, pp. 84, 87, fig. 50 p. 170.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 60.
Rostrup, Haavard. "Studier i fransk portraetmaleri Cézanne." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptotek 26 (1969), p. 12, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 39, fig. 35.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 48, ill.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 15.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo 100, no. 150 (August 1974), pl. 6.
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 78.
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 98.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 29, ill.
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 29.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 48, photo reversed.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 73, ill. in color.
Thomson, Belinda. The Post-Impressionists. London: Phaidon Press, 1983, pl. 68.
Le Pichon, Yann. The Real World of the Impressionists: Painting and Photographs, 1848–1918. New York: C.N. Potter, 1984, p. 241, ill.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 71, ill. in color.
Cassou, Jean. Un Siècle d'art moderne: L'histoire du Salon des indépendants, 1884–1984. Paris: Denoël, 1984, p. 9, ill.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 171, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 189, ill.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 162, ill.
Patin, Sylvie. "The Collectors of Cézanne's Early Works." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 40.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 110, ill. in color.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 49, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 90, fig. 58.
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 118, ill. in color.
Skedsmo, Tone. "Omkring et portrett malt av Paul Cézanne." Kunst og Kultur,, no. 1 (1991), fig. 11.
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 119.
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 87, ill.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 29, ill.
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 18.
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 103, ill.
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. 811, ill. vol. 2 and p. 43, ill. col. vol. 1 as Portrait de M. Ambroise Vollard.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 57, fig. 46 as Portrait of Ambroise Vollard.
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne's Unfinish." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 36 (Autumn 1999), p. 226, fig. 1.
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. 55, fig. 21 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 293, pl. 183.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Cézanne and the Unfinished." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38, fig. 14 detail as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 165, ill. as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Cézanne: le idee, la mostra." In Cezanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milano: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 24.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence, The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 232, fig. 6.1 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 215, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 235, ill.
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 58, ill. in color.
Gloor, Lukas. "Verzeichnis der Porträts von Ambroise Vollard." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 105, ill. in b/w as Ambroise Vollard in Dreiviertelfigur, sitzend.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Gloor, Lukas. "Ambroise Vollard in seinen Portraits." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 90-92, ill. in color p. 93 as Ambroise Vollard.
Buschhoff, Anne. "Paula Modersoh-Becker und Paris. Fünf Vorbemerkungen; Lanschaften; Figurenbilder; Stillleben." In Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso. Munich: Hirmer, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, fig. 9 as Porträt Ambroise Vollard.
Morel, Jean-Paul. C'était Ambroise Vollard. Paris: Fayard, 2007, ill. as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 359; vol. 2, p. 233 as Portrait de M. Ambroise Vollard.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 146, fig. 104.
Roquebert, Anne. "De Cézanne à Picasso: Chez Vollard." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 6 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Roquebert, Anne. "Van Cézanne naar Picasso: Ambroise Vollard." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7 as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Ireson, Nancy and Wright Barnaby. "Cézanne's Card Player. An Introduction." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 22, fig. 4.
Assante di Panzillo, Maryline. "Salons, marchands et collectionneurs." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 177, ill. as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Chiappini, Rudy. "I temi prediletti del padre della modernità." In Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 99, fig. 4.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 331, pl. 155.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 110, fig. 67.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 93, fig. 17.
Rishel, Joseph J. "The Critical Fortunes of Paul Durand-Ruel." In Inventing Impressionism, Paul Durand-Ruel and Modern Art Market. London, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 126 as Ambroise Vollard.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 129, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Reanimation." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 79, fig. 1.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 359, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 50.
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