Man Smoking a Pipe
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (French - Le Fumeur de pipe accoudé) is an oil on canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, created in 1895–1900. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.
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).
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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 and 1955 and twice in Leningrad in 1956 (including the Cézanne exhibition). It was then exhibited at Bordeaux in 1965, Paris in winter 1965–1966 and finally in Osaka in 1970.
Sources
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts — Museum open access