The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1155
Paysage provençal (environs de Gardanne?)
c.1885
Alternate titles: La Plaine de Bellevue; Plaine de Bellevue; Provençal landscape; Provenzalische Landschaft (Paysage en Provence); The "Bellevue" plain
Rewald (W243); Venturi revised: 1886–87
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Watermark: MONTGOLFIER
12 5/8 x 19 13/16 in. (32.1 x 50.3 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 44, as The "Bellevue" plain, dated 1885–87, Exhibited for the first time. Lent by Private collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The E.M. Remarque Collection, November 23, 1942–July 26, 1943, no number listed.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Remarque Collection, October 18–November 13, 1943, no. 36, as Plaine de Bellevue (see note for w375).
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 71, as La Plaine de Bellevue, 1885-87 (as Remarque Collection).
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 71, lent by Marianne Feilchenfeldt; dated 1885–86.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 55, pl. 35, c. 1885 (measurements incorrect).
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 54, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 162, as Provençal landscape, lent by W. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 27, ill., as Provenzalische Landschaft (Paysage en Provence), 1885-86, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 91, ill., as Paysage provençal (environs de Gardanne?), c. 1885, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 56, ill. lent by Private collection; shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Luxembourg & Dayan, London, Reconstructing Cezanne, Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne's works on paper, October 2–December 7, 2019, no. 2, ill.
Published References
Novotny, Fritz. "Der Reiz des Unvollendeten bei Cézanne." Du (Zürich) 19, no. 4 (April 1959), p. 49, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 243, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézanne: Vollendet, Unvollendet." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 272, ill.
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 246-47, no. F, ill.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "On Margins and Versos: The Hidden Interrelationships Among Cézanne's Works on Paper." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 11, with fig. 10 (FWN1167), the two works "were painted on both halves of the one full sheet of paper".
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tackling Cezanne's Paper: On the Reconstruction of Loose Sheets." In Reconstructing Cezanne. London: Ridinghouse and Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, ill.
Notes
This sheet, originally a French "raisin" size (50 x 65.5 cm), was cut in two. The other half of the sheet is [La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885–87 (1167)]). The connection was discovered by Fabienne Ruppen.
Record last updated April 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage provençal (environs de Gardanne?), c.1885 (FWN 1155)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1223 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
