Head of a Man, 1865

  • Paul Cézanne, French, 1839-1906

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 16 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (42.5 × 33.3 cm)
  • 27 3/4 × 24 5/8 × 2 5/8 inches (70.5 × 62.5 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

72.465

On View

  • Modern C234

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed, in red, lower right: P. CEZANE | -65

Stamp, on verso, upper right: [illegible round canvas stamp] Stamp, on stretcher: [tax stamp] Stickers, on stretcher: J. K. Thannhauser, 12 East 67th Street, New York 21, N.Y.; 3354/15; Galerie Thannhauser | Luzern [balance defaced] Marks, in black on stretcher: 1672.

(Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris, France)

1916, Berlin, (Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Germany)

1916, by inheritance to his widow, Tilla Durieux-Cassirer

May 17, 1927, sold by (Cassirer & Helbring, Berlin, Germany) lot 38

1927, purchased by (Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne, Switzerland and New York, New York, USA)

1932, Paul Smolka (Prague, Czechoslovakia and later Larchmont, New York, USA)

April 26, 1972, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) estate of Paul Smolka, lot 15

1972, sold by Mrs. Paul Smolka

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Meier-Graefe, J. Cézanne und Sein Kreis ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte. Munich, 1922, p. 73, cited in footnote 2. Venturi, L. Cézanne, Son art–son oeuvre. Paris, 1936, vol. II, no. 110 (ill.). Nebesky, V. "Tricet let po smrti Cézannove (Thirty Years after the Death of Cézanne)." Zivot: vutvarne odbor Umjeleck besedy v Praze, vol. 15. 1936, pp. 16-23, p. 17 (ill.). Gatto, A. L'Opera completa di Cézanne. Milan, 1970, no. 75 (ill.), p. 89. Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 52 (1972-1973): p. 59 (ill.). La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1249 (February 1973): p. 158, no. 556 (ill.). Rewald, J., W. Feilchenfeldt, and J. Warman. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1996, vol. 1, p. 84, no. 74; vol. 2, p. 23 (ill.).

Paul Cézanne, Head of a Man, 1865, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 72.465.