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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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

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.

Publication History

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).

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.