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Currently not on display

Paul Cézanne

Aix-en-Provence, 1839 - Aix-en-Provence, 1906

The Eternal Feminine

Date 1890-95
Materials and Techniques pencil and watercolour on paper
Size(cm) 21.0 x 27.0
Inscriptions none
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Venturi 904; Rewald 385; M1489
Category Drawings
Collection Number D.1959-0009

Provenance

Georges Bernheim, Paris; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1919; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred by French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

1947
Les origines de l'art contemporain: la peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, Strasbourg Museum (also shown at Besançon and Nancy), 27 September 1947 - 0  0, cat. no. 53 (as Le Triomphe)
1953
Cézanne; peintures, aquarelles, dessins, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, 30 July 1953 - 5 August 1953, cat. no. 32
1958
De l'Impressionnisme á nos jour: aquarelles, pastels, gouaches, Musée national art moderne, Paris, 27 June 1958 - 0  0, cat. no. 26, pl. 4
1974
Cézanne, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 30 March 1974 - 19 May 1974, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art 1 June-17 July 1974, the Fukuoka Cultural Center 24 July-18 August 1974, cat. no. 67
1982
Paul Cézanne: Aquarelle, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 16 January 1982 - 21 March 1982, cat. no. 9, col. repr.
1986
Cézanne, Isetan Museum of Art, 18 September 1986 - 7 October 1986, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 10 Octber-9 November 1986, The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 15 November-4 December 1986, cat. no. 53, col. repr.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 19 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 24
2000
Cézanne and Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 5 January 2000 - 12 March 2000, cat. no. 68, col. repr.
2001
French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001, exhibited 15 May - 24 June
2012
Cézanne. Paris-Provence, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 28 March 2012 - 11 June 2012, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
2015
The Aesthetic Value of Non-Carving(不刻), Sculptor Kim Chong Yung and His Era, The Museum of Art, Seoul National University, 7 May 2015 - 26 July 2015, p. 174, col. repr.
2021
Cézanne: Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 6 June 2021 - 25 September 2021, cat. no. 40

Bibliography

1936
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne, son art, son œuvre. Paris, 1936, no. 904.
1940
Paul Cézanne: 1858-1885. 2vols, Tokyo, Takamizawamokuhansha, 1940, cat. no. 374.
1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris, 1948, repr. pl. XVII.
1955
La Collection Matsukata. Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 , no. 22. (in Japanese)
1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. München, 1956, p. 77.
1959
Mizue : a monthly review of the fine arts. no. 651, Special Number, July 1959 (in Japanese)
1961
Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-47.
1962
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au Cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. [vol.] Texte, Olten, 1962, pp. 66-67, cat. No. 79, fig. 29.
1962
Cézanne. Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1962, (Master Pieces of the World, 9), pl. 30.
1972
Dellis, M.. Note relative au tableau "La Belle Impéria". Arts et Livres de Provence. no. 81, 1972, p. 7.
1973
Schapiro, Meyer. P. Cezanne. Ollivier, Louis-Marie, tran, Paris, [1973], pp. 36-37, repr.
1974
Exposition Cézanne. Musée National d'Art Occidental, 30 March-19 May 1974; Musée de la Ville de Kyoto, 1 June-17 July 1974; Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, 24 July-18 August 1974. Tokyo, Yomiurishimbun, cat. no. 67.
1982
Paul Cézanne, Aquarelle (exh. cat.). Adriani, Götz. Köln, DuMont, 1982, p. 263, cat. no. 9, col. repr.
1984
Rewald, John. Les aquarelles de Cézanne: catalogue raisonné. Paris, 1984, no. 385.
1986
Cézanne (exh.cat.). Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 18 September-7 October, 1986; The Hyogo Perfectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, 10 October-9 November 1986; The Aichi Perfectural Art Gallery, 15 November-4 December 1986. Tokyo, The Tokyo Shimbun, cat. no. 53.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 379.
1990
Inoue, Akihiko; Ono, Masaharu. Cézanne Aquarelle. Kyoto, Korinsha, 1990, cat. no. 11. (in Japanese)
1996
Degas: beyond impressionism (exh. cat.). Kendall, Richard. The National Gallery, London, 22 May-26 August 1996; The Art Institute of Chicago, 28 September-5 January 1997. London, National Gallery Publications, no. 46.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials (exh.cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April-22 June 1997. The National Museum of Western Art; The National Museum Art, Osaka, cat. no. 24.
1999
Cézanne and Japan (exh. cat.). Yokohama Museum of Art; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; NHK; The Tokyo Shimbun, eds. [Tokyo], NHK; NHK Promotions; The Tokyo Shimbun, 1999, p. 110, cat. no. 68, col. repr.
2012
Cézanne.: Paris-Provence(exh. cat.). [Tokyo], Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., c2012, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
2015
The aesthetic value of non-carving, sculptor Kim Chong Yung and his era (exh. cat.). Choi, Jong-Tae, ed. Seoul, Kim Chong Yung Musem, 2015, pp. 174, 339, col. repr.
2019
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1489, col. repr.
2021
Cézanne Drawing (exh. cat.). Hauptman, Jodi; Friedman, Samantha, eds. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2021, pp. 55, 211, cat. no. 40, col. repr.

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