The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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© Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation
FWN 3006-40bisb
Personnages au bord de l'eau
c.1877
Alternate titles: On the Water; Sur l'eau
Rewald (W55); Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (1233): 1872–77
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, unnumbered page verso from the AIC sketchbook
5 1/8 x 8 11/16 in. (13 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 58[a] (see Dormoy 1926).
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, Cézanne and Renoir, November 18–30, 1951, no. 17.
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Tokyo, Développement de la peinture moderne (l'Occident et le Japan), 1953, no. 77, ill.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Watercolor and Drawing, 1954, n.n.
Isetan [Department Store], Tokyo, Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, March 1–17, 1963, no. 12, ill.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 56, ill. 1872-1877, lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 44, ill. lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 63, ill., as Personnages au bord de l'eau, lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Published References
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), ill. p. 447.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1233, ill. vol. II, as Sur l'eau.
Paul Cézanne: 1858–1885, 2 vols. Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1940, no. 456.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 55, ill.
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection. Tokyo, 1985, cat. no. 30, ill. p. 127, as On the Water.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 403, ill., as Sur l'eau.
Notes
The painting La Cueillette (FWN 638) and a page from this sketchbook Deux femmes dans un paysage (3006-30b) are loosely related to this watercolor.
The sheet was removed from the sketchbook before it was paginated.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chicago, c.1875–86 (3006)
Sketchbook Chicago, c.1875–86 (3006)
The sketchbook is currently bound and contains 50 sheets, indicated by the notation "Lx2" on the back endpaper. Several pages were removed and sold separately.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals on the 'a" side of the sheet at the bottom right.
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Record last updated November 9, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Personnages au bord de l'eau, c.1877 (FWN 3006-40bisb), unnumbered page verso from the AIC sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1032 (accessed on May 1, 2024).
