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 113
La Maison abandonnée
1878–79
Alternate titles: Das verlassene Haus; Deserted House; Geborstenes Haus; Haus des Gehängten; La maison abandonnée; La maison abandonnée au Tholonet; La Maison du pendu; Paysage provençal
Rewald (351): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Cézanne fils: Le Tholonet 1887; Venturi (659): 1892–94; Rivière: 1887; Vollard: 1887
Oil on canvas
19 5/16 x 23 in. (49 x 58.5 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7055, maison dans paysage provençal, 50 x 60 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 322, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Le Tholonet 1887
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, New York;
Private collection, Japan
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 17, as La Maison abandonnée, lent by Blot.
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 30, as Das verlassene Haus.
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 62, as La Maison du pendu, lent by Vollard.
Stafford Gallery, London, Pictures by Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, November–December 1911, no. 5, as La Maison abandonnée, lent by Vollard.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Fifty-Three French Paintings of the Latter Nineteenth Century, July 13–August 15, 1921, lent by Ralph Coe.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Extended Loan, 1922–24.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Fifty Years of French Art, October 29–November 29, 1926.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 17, as La Maison abandonnée, lent by Coe.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1931–35.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, June 26–October 4, 1936, no. 253.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 25, ill., as Deserted House, lent by R. Coe.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 54, lent by Coe.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 1949.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 113, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 40, ill. lent by Coe.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissaro, Cézanne, October–November 18, 1967, no. 4, ill., as La maison abandonnée au Tholonet, c. 1885.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 24, ill.
Published References
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 97, as Haus des Gehängten.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 145.
Bell, Clive. "The Tyranny of Names and Dates." Arts and Decoration 12, no. 4 (February 20, 1920), p. 235, ill.
Milliken, William Mathewson. "French Impressionists at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 6/7 (June- July 1921), p. 105.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 70, as Das verlassene Haus, dated 1887.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 176.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Hagen, Oskar. Art Epochs and Their Leaders: A Survey of the Genesis of Modern Art. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927, pl. 108.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. L.
Blot, Eugène. Histoire d'une collection de tableaux modernes, 50 ans de peinture (de 1882 à 1932). Paris: Editions d'Art, 1934, p. 36.
Combe, Jacques. "L'influence de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), ill. p. 29, as La Maison du pendu.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 659, ill. vol. II, as La Maison abandonnée.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 7.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 70, as Paysage provençal, 1892-94.
Coe, Ralph T. "Letters: Cézanne's 'La Maison abandonnée.'" The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 688 (July 1960), p. 329, as La Maison abandonnée.
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 117.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 351, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison abandonnée.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 129, fig. 3.29, as La Maison abandonnée.
Robbins, Anne. "Less a Luxury Than a Necessity: Collecting Cézanne in Britain." In Cézanne in Britain. London: Kate Bell, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, fig. 6.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 34, ill., as La Maison abandonnée (the exact location unconfirmed).
Kitschen, Friederike. "Das Papierne Museum: Julius Meier-Graefe und die Vergegenwärtigung Paul Cézannes in Bild und Wort." In Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste, Becker, Ingeborg and Stephanie Marchal (editors). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017, p. 189, fig. 8 p. 191 (reproduction of ill. in Meier-Graefe 1918), as Geborstenes Haus.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 67, ill., as La maison abandonnée.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 70.
Record last updated March 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison abandonnée, 1878–79 (FWN 113)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=347 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
