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 361
Château Noir
1900–04
Alternate titles: Castillo negro; Château-Noir; Het zwarte kasteel; Le Château Noir
Rewald (941): 1903–04; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (795): 1904–6; Ratcliffe: c.1904 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4464, Château noir, 73 x 92 cm (6000/11000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 104, Annotated: Tholonet circa 1902
Provenance
Exhibition History
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. 52, pl. 59. 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).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 53 bis, ill., (addendum, p. 237).
Musée du Louvre, Pavillon de Flore, Paris, Donations Picasso: la collection personnelle de Picasso, 1978, no. 6, ill. in color, as Château Noir, catalogue entry: Anne Distel.
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 7, ill., as Château Noir, 1904-1906.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 30, figs. 30 and 266.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 96, ill.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Picasso und seine Sammlung, April 30–August 16, 1998, no. 8, ill., as Château Noir.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 44, ill., p. 61, as Château Noir.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 39, ill., p. 181, as Château Noir. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 100, ill., (dated 1900–04), shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Picasso y su colección, December 19, 2007–March 30, 2008, no no., p. 81, ill., as Castillo negro, 1905.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 58, ill. lent by Musée Picasso, Paris.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 27, ill. lent by Musée Picasso, Paris.
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), pp. 19-20, no. 8, fig. 15 p. 20, with photograph of motif, as Le Château Noir.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 795, ill. vol. II, as Le Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 9.
Penrose, Roland. Portrait of Picasso. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971, fig. 319.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 57.
Besnard-Bernadac, Marie-Laure et al. "Collection personnelle de Picasso." In Musée Picasso: catalogue sommaire des collections, I. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985, p. 234, no. T. 9, ill., as Château Noir.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 154, ill. in color.
Ely, Bruno. "La plus haute sommité du département." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 184, fig. 166, as Château Noir.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 144, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 28-29.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 110, fig. 82, with photographs of the motif, figs. 79 and 80, as Le Château Noir.
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. 941, ill. vol. 2, as Château Noir.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Paul Cézanne - La Passione per il visibile." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 57.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 96, ill. in color.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 46, as Château Noir.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), p. 627, fig. 53, as Château Noir, 1900-04.
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne!… vous pensez bien que j'ai regardé ses tableaux…" In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 99, fig. 30, as Château Noir, dated 1905–06.
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne! … naturlijk heb ik zijn schilderijen bekeken…' [Picasso]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, as Het zwarte kasteel, 1905-1906.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 173, fig. 90, as Château-Noir.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 175, fig. 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 186, fig 70d, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 184, figs. 70a and 70b, as Château Noir.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 7.
Record last updated October 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Château Noir, 1900–04 (FWN 361)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=914 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
