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    Man Wearing a Straw Hat
    Paul Cezanne. Man Wearing a Straw Hat, 1905/06. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004449

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    Man Wearing a Straw Hat

    by Paul Cezanne

    Provenance

    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.

    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.

    Publications

    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).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Cézanne / French, 1839-1906
    Date
    1905/06
    Medium
    Watercolor with graphite on white wove paper
    Dimensions
    47.9 × 31.5 cm (18 7/8 × 12 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Janis H. Palmer in memory of Pauline K. Palmer
    Accession no.
    1983.1498

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