Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (1895-1900) by Paul Cézanne

Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (French - Le Fumeur de pipe accoudé) is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Cézanne, created in 1895-1900. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.[1][2][3]

It depicts a peasant (almost certainly Paulin Paulet) smoking a clay pipe whilst leaning on a table at the Jas-de-Bouffan, the painter's family estate. At the right, it seems that part of the same painter's work Woman with a Cafetière is visible (Musée d'Orsay). The painter returned to the theme several times, most notably with The Pipe Smoker (Hermitage Museum).

The work formed part of Sergei Shchukin's collection, having been sold to him by Ambroise Vollard in 1913. Shchukin's whole collection was seized by the Soviet state in spring 1918 and Pipe Smoker was initially assigned to the Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow, before moving to its present home in 1948. It appeared in temporary exhibitions in Moscow in 1926[4] and 1955[5] and twice in Leningrad in 1956[6] (including the Cézanne exhibition[7]). It was then exhibited at Bordeaux in 1965,[8] Paris in winter 1965-1966[9] and finally in Osaka in 1970.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Inventory number 3336
  2. ↑ "Description on the French painting section of the Pushkin Museum n° 181".
  3. ↑ "Catalogue entry".
  4. ↑ Catalogue n° 17
  5. ↑ Catalogue n° 57
  6. ↑ Catalogue p. 56
  7. ↑ Catalogue n° 19
  8. ↑ Catalogue n° 56
  9. ↑ Catalogue n° 48
  10. ↑ Catalogue p. 270

Bibliography

  • (in Russian) Кат. собр. С. Щукина [Catalogue of the Shchukin Collection] 1913, n° 205, pp. 46–47
  • (in French) Bernard Dorival, Cézanne, Paris, éd. Tisné, coll. Prométhée, 1948, p. 61 illustr.
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