
Man Wearing a Straw Hat
Paul Cezanne · 1905/06
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris, by 1936 [Venturi 1936]; by descent to Robert de Galéa, Paris, 1939 [Rewald 1983]. Martin Fabiani, Paris [Rewald 1983]. Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York [Rewald 1983]. Mrs. Pauline K. Palmer (1867-1956), Chicago; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914-1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917-1984), Sarasota, Fla.; given to the Art Institute, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings," February 7-March 16, 1952, p. 94, cat. 119 (ill.); traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 4-May 18, 1952.
- Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum, "Palmer Family Collections," 23 February-24 March 1963, cat. 6.
- Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, "Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," February 27-March 28, 1971, p. 94, cat. 62 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-May 16, 1971, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-June 30, 1971.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Cézanne: The Late Work," October 7, 1977-January 3, 1978, pp. 415 and 225, cat. 120, pl. 17; traveled to Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, January 22-March 19, 1978.
- Paris, Grand Palais, "Cézanne, les dernières années, 1895-1906," April 20-July 23, 1978, pp. 82-83 (ill.), cat. 9.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 60-161, cat. 73 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 61; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Cézanne," May 26-August 18, 1996, cat. 224.
- Vienna, Kunstforum, "Cézanne: Finished-Unfinished," January 20-April 25, 2000, p. 199, cat. 36 (ill.); also traveled to the Kunsthaus Zürich, May 5-July 30, 2000.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne", May 11 - September 5, 2022, pp. 41-42, 48-49, (fig. 3), 56 (fig. 13), 202, cat. 134 (ill.), cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1914), p. 158 (ill.).
- Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art – son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), p. 276, no. 1090 (ill.).
- E. Loran, "Cézanne in 1952," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (February 1, 1952).
- John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1983), pp. 256-257, no. 638 (ill.).
- Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, exh. cat. (London, 1984), p. 145.
- John Sillevis, Hans Verbeek, Hans Kraan, A Feast of Colour: Post-Impressionists from Private Collections (Zwolle, Netherlands, 1990), p. 66.
- The letters of Pauline Palmer: a great lady of Chicago's first family, edited by Eleanor Dwight (New York, 2005).
- Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash, "Paysan au canotier, c.1906 (FWN 1779)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1621 (accessed on February 1, 2019).
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