Man with a Pipe

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker


1839-1906

Title

Man with a Pipe

Date of Production

c. 1892-96

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 73 cm (canvas)
Width: 60 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.58

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

Label Text

In this portrait, Paul Cézanne seems to have carefully considered every brushstroke in order to convey the sitter’s features and character. The man, a farmworker from the artist’s family estate, is portrayed as a stoical figure, his weathered face suggesting a working life spent outdoors. Cézanne made a number of paintings of rural workers at this time. He wrote: ‘I love above all the appearance of people who have grown old without breaking with old customs’.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Paul Gallimard, Paris; Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; Bignou, Paris; Alex Reid and Lefèvre, London: purchased by Samuel Courtauld in October 1927; Courtauld Gift, 1932

Exhibition History

Cezanne. Masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery, KODE, Bergen, Norway, 16/07/2021-10/10/2021
Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
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Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019
Cezanne Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 26/10/2017-11/02/2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 25/03/2018-08/07/2018
Cezanne's Card Players, Metropolitan Museum of Art & New York & USA, 07/02/2011-08/05/2011
Cezanne's Card Players, Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/10/2010-16/01/2011
Picasso-Cezanne, le soleil en face, Musee Granet & Aix-en-Provence & France, 22/05/2009-27/09/2009
The Courtauld Cézannes, Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008
Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art, Museum Folkwang & Essen & Germany, 18/09/2004-16/01/2005
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Literature

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008
cat. no. 7
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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