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© Museum Folkwang, Essen
FWN 306
La Carrière de Bibémus
c.1895
Alternate titles: Bibémus Quarry; Carrière Bibémus; Carrière de Bibémus; Les carrières de Bibémus; Quarry at Bibémus; The Quarry at Bibémus
Rewald (797): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (767): 1898–1900; Ratcliffe: between1895 and 1899
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3987, huile; rocher rouge avec quelques arbres verts, 64 x 79 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4354, Paysage; rochers et arbres, 65 x 81 cm (1000 frs)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Oct. 20, 1904)
Karl Ernst Osthaus, Hagen;
Museum Folkwang, Hagen
Siegfried Kramarsky, New York
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1964)
Museum Folkwang, Essen (1964)
Exhibition History
1912 Hagen
Museum Folkwang, Hagen, Germany, Moderne Kunst: Plastik, Malerei, Graphik, [July] 1912, no. 114.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, hors catalogue.
1948b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 10, as La Carrière de Bibémus, lent by Kramarsky.
1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 107, ill. lent by Kramarsky. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
1958b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 25, as The Quarry at Bibémus, lent by Siegfried Kramarsky.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 50, ill. lent by Kramarsky.
1960a New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 17, lent by Siegfried Kramarsky.
1977–78 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 11, pl. 31. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
1978a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 36, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 149, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 137 (63.5 x 79 cm).
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 87, ill. Museum Folkwang, Essen. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 116, p. 342.
Published References
Waldmann 1914a
Waldmann, Emil. "Das Folkwangmuseum." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 5 (1914), p. 258.
Osthaus 1920
Osthaus, Karl Ernst. "Cézanne." Das Feuer 1 (December 1920).
Servaes 1920
Servaes, Franz. "Moderne Bilder im Hagener Folkwang-Museum." Der Cicerone 12, no. 3 (1920), pp. 99-100.
Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.
Novotny 1929
Novotny, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Belvedere 8, no. 12 (1929), fig. 32.
Loran 1930
Johnson, Erle Loran. "Cézanne's Country." The Arts 16, no. 8 (April 1930), p. 523, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 767, ill. vol. II, as Carrière de Bibémus.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 73.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), pp. 55 and 56, as Carrière Bibémus.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 36.
Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 78.
Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 71, pl. XII (with photograph of the motif).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 139, listed p. 169.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 90.
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 78.
Louchheim 1952
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 23, ill., as The Quarry at Bibémus.
Badt 1965
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 163.
Vogt 1965
Vogt, Paul. Das Museum Folkwang Essen. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1965, pp. 20, 124, 126, 169, p. 85, ill.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1966
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1165 (February 1966), p. 21, no. 88, ill., as Carrière Bibémus, 1898-1900.
Held 1971
Held, Jutta. Katalog der Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts. Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1971, no. 342, pl. XVIII.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 146, ill.
Crespelle 1979
Crespelle, Jean-Paul. "Cézanne's Magic Mountain." Réalités (November–December 1979), p. 58, ill.
Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 8.
Arrouye 1982a
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 83, ill.
Arnold 1986b
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 129, fig. 32.
Erpel 1988
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 28.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 171, ill. in color.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 119, ill. in color.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 200, ill.
Chovelon 1990
Chovelon, Paul. "Léo Marchutz." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 254, fig. 221.
Brion-Guerry 1995
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. "La difficile recherche d'un nouvel espace." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 74-75.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, pp. 131-32, ill.
Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 44, ill.
Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 135, fig. 124, with photograph of the motif, fig. 123, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
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. 797, ill. vol. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Martin 1999
Martin, François-René. "L'Arcadie, l'abstraction, l'ascèse. Baumeister et Cézanne." In Willi Baumeister et la France. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 14 p. 36, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 300, fig. 186.
Coutagne 2002
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 31, ill. in color.
Giles and Armstrong 2002
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 2.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 171, fig. 4.27, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 2.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 82, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1927), p. 83, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 143, ill.
Guégan 2006
Guégan, Stéphane. "Paul Cézanne: douce Provence." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 266 (August 2006), ill. p. 42, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Kropmanns 2006
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 315; vol. 2, p. 214, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Byrd 2009
Byrd, Anne. "The Brush Stroke as Catastrophe: Gasquet's 'Cézanne' and the Paintings of Bibémus Quarry." RACAR; revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review 34, no. 1 (2009), p. 49,, fig. 6.
Kostenevich 2009
Kostenevich, Albert. "Liubov Popova: From Cézanne to Utopia." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 343, pl. 116, as Bibémus Quarry.
Shiff 2009a
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill., p. 342, pl. 116, as Bibémus Quarry.
Thomas 2010
Thomas, Gina. "Museum Folkwang: Essen." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1289 (August 2010), p. 566, fig. 66, as Quarry at Bibémus.
Machotka 2011a
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 195, fig. 112, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Coutagne 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 174, fig. 116.
Chiappini 2013
Chiappini, Rudy. "I temi prediletti del padre della modernità." In Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 8.
Coutagne 2013a
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38, fig. 12.
Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 169, fig. 62b, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 62a, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Obenaus 2016
Obenauf, Maria. Für die Nation gesichert? Das "Verzeichnis der national wertvollen Kunstwerke": Entstehung, Etablierung und Instrumentalisierung 1919-1945. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016, pl. XII, ill. p. 352.
Rosebrock 2017
Rosebrock, Tessa. "Four Champions of Modernism, Cézanne's Supporters and Intermediaries in Germany During the Imperial Era." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 10.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 106.
Labrusse 2019
Labrusse, Rémi. "L'épaisseur du temps." In Préhistoire: une énigme moderne. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 23, as Les carrières de Bibémus.
Elderfield et al 2020
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 11, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as Bibémus Quarry, dated 1895–1900, catalogue notes by John Elderfield and Ariel Kline.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 107.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 184, fig. 11, as The Quarry at Bibémus.
Ruppen 2021a
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tiefenschürfungen: Cézannes Fels- und Steinbruchmalerei." Kunstchronik 74, no. 6 (June 2021), fig. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
La Carrière de Bibémus, c.1895 (FWN 306). Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
La Carrière de Bibémus, c.1895 (FWN 306). Site identified by Erle Loran.
Site identified by Erle Loran.
Photo: Erle Loran; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated June 5, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Carrière de Bibémus, c.1895 (FWN 306)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=773 (accessed on March 28, 2024).