Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906
Man Wearing a Straw Hat, 1905/06
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
479 x 315 mm
Gift of Janis H. Palmer in memory of Pauline K. Palmer, 1983.1498
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, & Drawings," 1952, no. 119; also traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum, "Palmer Family Collections," 23 February-24 March 1963, cat. 6.
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," 27 February-29 March 1971, cat. 62; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, 17 April-16 May 1971, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1 June-3 July 1971.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Cézanne: The Late Work," 1977, cat. 120; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Cézanne, les dernières années, 1895-1906," cat. 9; traveled to the Grand Palais, Paris, 20 April-23 July 1978 .
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.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Cézanne," May 26-August 18, 1996, cat. 224.
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.
Vienna, Kunstforum Wein, "Cézanne: Finished-Unfinished," 2000, cat. 36; also traveled to the Kunsthaus Zürich, 5 May-30 July 2000.
Publication History
Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1914), p. 158 (ill.).
Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art – son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), 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), no. 638 (ill.).
French Painting from 1820-1930 in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London 1997).
The letters of Pauline Palmer: a great lady of Chicago's first family, edited by Eleanor Dwight (New York, 2005).
Adrienne M. Zetty, Course packet, art 1848: drawing and compositon (Louisiana State University, Fall 2005).
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.