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Catalogue entry

FWN 261-TA
La Route tournante
1888–90
Rewald (633): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1880–85
Oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (54.5 x 65 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 440, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Tholonet 1890
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Georges Keller, New York
Pierre Courthion, Paris;
Loudmer, Paris, May 28, 1975, no. 164, ill.; bought in
Reuben R. Hecht, Haifa
[Benjamin Robert Payn, New York]
Gekkoso Gallery, Tokyo
Urban Research Center, New York
Marc-Arthur Kohn, Monte Carlo, July 30, 2011, no. 4, ill.
Private collection
Published References
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 633, ill.
Rewald 1996
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. 633, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante.
Reff 1997a
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, expresses his doubts about the attribution.
Notes

There is a photograph of this work from Etienne Bignou's archives giving the measurement of 60 x 73 cm. This photograph corresponds with the Vollard photo no. 440 mentioned above and reproduced in the plates volume [Rewald, 1996]. The present measurements are 54.5 by 65 cm.


According to information from Georges Keller to Rewald, he had bought the painting from Vollard before World War II. The canvas had been in a fire and had been badly damaged. As a result it had to be repainted extensively and also cropped along one or two edges. In 1975, in a letter to Maître Guy Loudmer, Rewald called it "une véritable ruine."


In 1986 Rewald, furthermore, made the following statement: "In the meantime the 'retouches,' which constituted a considerable overpainting, were removed in the hope that enough was left of the original, even after the fire, to provide it with some kind of authenticity. I have seen the picture without the repaints in the restoration laboratory of the Metropolitan Museum of New York and was shocked by its condition. Since then it has been not only just retouched but - in my opinion - totally repainted. I believe that at present there is no longer a single brushstroke by Cézanne on this canvas." (Letter to Urban Art Research Center, June 26, 1986)


Subsequent to this note in Rewald, the painting has been subjected to another restoration campaign but unfortunately this has not revealed any more of the artist's original brushwork.

Record last updated September 24, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante, 1888–90 (FWN 261-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=615 (accessed on May 21, 2024).