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Van Buren, \u201cMadame C\u00e9zanne\u2019s Fashions and the Dates of her Portraits,\u201d The Art Quarterly 29, 2 (1966), p. 121.\n\nRichard W. Murphy, The World of C\u00e9zanne 1839-1906 (New York, 1968), pp. 104-105 (ill.).\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1977), p. 102 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), no. 65 (ill.).\n\nMichel Hoog, Catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume (Paris: Editions de la R\u00e9union des mus\u00e9es nationaux, 1984), p. 32.\n\nMichael Howard, Cezanne (London, 1990), pp. 126 (ill.), 127.\n\nRichard Verdi, C\u00e9zanne (London, 1992), pp. 131, 132, fig. 111.\n\nJohn Rewald, The Paintings of Paul C\u00e9zanne: A Catalgoue Raisonn\u00e9 (New York, 1996), vol. 1, p. 422, no. 653, vol. 2., p. 220.\n\nTom\u00e0s Llorens Comisario, Forma: El ideal cl\u00e1sico en el arte moderno, exh. cat. (Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001-2), p. 123 (ill.).\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 64, pp. 136, 137 (ill.).\n\nRobert Storr, \"La Famille Cezanne,\" C\u00e9zanne and Beyond, exh. cat ( Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009), Fig. 2.8, pp. 51-53.\n\nSusan Sidlauskas, C\u00e9zanne's Other. The Portraits of Hortense, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2009, pp. 94, 130-31, 135, 178, plate 14.\n\n\"C\u00e9zanne's Portraiture, The Emotional Brush,\" The Economist, November 11, 2017, 76 (ill.).\n\nDanchev, Alex, et. al., C\u00e9zanne Portraits, Exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay\/Gallimard, 2018), 148-157, cat. 44.\n\nAchim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, eds., Cezanne, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), 41-42 fig. 9, 108 cat. 36, 109.\n\nChristiane Lange, Ortrud Westheider, Nathalie Lachmann and Daniel Zamani, Modigliani Moderne Blicke, exh. cat. (Munich: London: New york: Prestel, 2023), 266, 268 cat. 105.\n\nMaria Kokkori, \u201cThe Cezanne Effect in Malevich\u2019s Suprematism,\u201d Experiment 29 (2023): 107 fig. 1, 108\u20139, 123, 124 fig. 12 (detail), 125.","exhibition_history":"Possibly Paris, Galerie Vollard, C\u00e9zanne, Nov.\u2013Dec. 1895, no cat.\n\nMoscow, Offices of the Toison d\u2019Or [Zolotoe Runo], Salon de la Toison d\u2019Or, Apr. 18\u2013May 24, 1908, cat. 15 (ill.), as Portrait de la femme du peintre.\n\nD\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf, Sonderbund Ausstellung, May\u2013June 1909, cat 86, as La femme \u00e0 la robe grenat.\n\nLondon, French Gallery, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century (Ingres to Picasso), 1926, cat. 5, as Portrait de Mme C\u00e9zanne dans un fauteuil, 1890.\n\nNew York, Paul Rosenberg & Co. at Wildenstein Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Paul C\u00e9zanne, 1839\u20131906, Jan. 1928, cat. 19, as Madame Cezanne en robe rouge.\n\nParis, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d\u2019Oeuvres Importantes de Grands Ma\u00eetres du XIXe siecle pr\u00e9t\u00e9es au profit de la Cit\u00e9 Universitaire de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Paris, May 18\u2013June 27, 1931, cat. 7 (ill.), as Mme C\u00e9zanne en rouge, assise dans un fauteuil jaune, 1888.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e de L\u2019Orangerie, C\u00e9zanne, May 20\u2013Oct. 11, 1936, cat. 75, as Petit Portrait de Mme C\u00e9zanne en rouge.\n\nParis, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition C\u00e9zanne (1839\u20131906), organis\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de son centenaire au profit de l\u2019\u0153uvre de l\u2019allaitement maternel, Feb. 21\u2013Apr. 1, 1939, cat. 26 (ill.), as Madame C\u00e9zanne au fauteuil jaune, 1892.\n\nLondon, Rosenberg & Helft, Exhibition C\u00e9zanne (1839\u20131906) to Celebrate His Centenary, Apr. 19\u2013May 20, 1939, cat. 17 (ill.), as Madame C\u00e9zanne au fauteuil jaune, 1892.\n\nMinneapolis Institute of Arts, The Art of Cezanne, Jan. 7\u2013Feb. 5, 1950, no cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, C\u00e9zanne: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings; A Loan Exhibition, Feb. 7\u2013Mar. 16, 1952, cat. 70 (ill.), as Mme. C\u00e9zanne in Yellow Armchair, 1890\u201394; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 4\u2013May 18, 1952.\n\nNew York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Masterpieces Recalled, a Loan Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century French Paintings for the Benefit of the League of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Feb. 6\u2013Mar. 2, 1957, cat. 19 (ill.).\n\nWashington, DC, The Phillips Collection, C\u00e9zanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, Feb. 27\u2013Mar. 28, 1971, cat. 23 (ill.), as 1893\u201395; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17\u2013May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1\u2013July 3, 1971.\n\nSydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, Apr. 10\u2013May 11, 1975, cat. 19 as 893\u201395; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, May 28\u2013June 22, 1975; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 4\u2013Sept. 1, 1975.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600\u20131900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8\u2013Sept. 11, 1978, cat. 22 (ill.).\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18\u2013Dec. 17, 1986, cat. 48 (ill.), as 1893\u201395; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5\u2013Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4\u2013Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nLeningrad [Saint Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzsko\u012d zhivopici XIX\u2013nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu\u2013\u012corke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings from the nineteenth century to the Beginning of the twentieth century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], Mar. 15\u2013May 19, 1988, cat. 36; Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, June 10\u2013July 30, 1988.\n\nT\u00fcbingen, Germany, Kunsthalle T\u00fcbingen, C\u00e9zanne: Gem\u00e4lde, Jan. 16\u2013May 7, 1993, cat. 42 (ill.), as Madame C\u00e9zanne auf gelbem Lehnstuhl (Madame C\u00e9zanne au fauteuil jaune).\n\nStockholm, Nationalmuseum, C\u00e9zanne i blickpunkten, Oct. 17, 1997\u2013Jan. 11, 1998, cat. 6 (ill.).\n\nSaint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Pol\u02b9 Sezann i russki\u012d avangard nachala XX veka [C\u00e9zanne and the Russian Avant\u2013Garde of the XX century], Aug. 8\u2013Sept. 24, 1998, cat. 26 (ill), as c. 1890; Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 5\u2013Nov. 15, 1998.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, C\u00e9zanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant\u2013Garde, Sept. 14, 2006\u2013Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 46 (ill.), as Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Armchair; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 17\u2013May 13, 2007; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, as De C\u00e9zanne \u00e0 Picasso: Chefs\u2013d'Oeuvre de la galerie Vollard, June 19\u2013Sept. 16, 2007, cat. 33. \n\nFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 64 (ill.).\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e Luxembourg, Cezanne et Paris, Oct. 10, 2011\u2013Feb. 27, 2012, car. 13 (ill.), as Madame C\u00e9zanne au fauteuil jaune.\n\nNew York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraits of Madame C\u00e9zanne, Nov. 19, 2014\u2013Mar. 15, 2015, no cat. no., pl. 20.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, C\u00e9zanne Portraits, June 13, 2017\u2013Sept. 24, 2017, cat. 44, as Madame C\u00e9zanne au fauteuil jaune; London, National Portrait Gallery, Oct. 26, 2017\u2013Feb. 11, 2018, as Madame Cezanne in a Red Dress, cat. 14.2; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, Mar. 25\u2013July 1, 2018.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15\u2013Sep. 5, 2022, cat. 36 (ill.); London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022\u2013Mar. 12, 2023.\n\nStuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Modigliani Moderne Blicke, Nov. 24, 2023\u2013Mar. 17, 2024, cat. 105 (ill.), as Madame C\u00e9zanne im gelben Sessel; Potsdam, Germany, Museum Barberini, Apr. 27\u2013Aug. 18, 2024 [Stuttgart only].","provenance_text":"Ambroise Vollard (1866\u20131939), Paris, June 13, 1906 [Vollard sent the painting to Bernheim-Jeune with two other paintings on June 13, 1906]; sold to Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, Feb. 22, 1907 [according to correspondence from Gilbert Gruet of Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Nov. 29, 1977, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Th\u00e9odore Duret, Paris, Apr. 16, 1907 [this and the following according to New York 2006\u20137]; returned to Galerie Bernheim\u2013Jeune & Cie, Paris, c. 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