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Catalogue entry

FWN 1055
Paysage au bord de l'eau
1878–80
Alternate titles: Environs de gardanne; Landscape with Hill; Vicinity of Gardanne; Waterfront Landscape
Rewald (W95); Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi (907): 1885–86
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 119
German Private Collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (1909)
Gertrude Stein, Paris (1913)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (November 1921)
Dr. and Mrs. Franz H. Hirschland, New York (August 1922)
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Private collection, New York;
Sotheby's, Paris, April 19, 2023, no. 102
Private collection, Germany
Exhibition History
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 52, as Landscape with Hill, let by F.H. Hirschland.
1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 22.
1939–40 Columbus
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne, December 19, 1939–January 8, 1940, no. 2, as Vicinity of Gardanne.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 70, as Environs de gardanne, 1885-86, lent by F.H. Hirschland.
1952 New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [W] 5, ill. formerly Thannhauser, Lucerne; lent by a New York private collector.
1956c New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 8, ill. lent by Private collection, NY.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 67, lent by Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Hirschland.
1970–71 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 155. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
Published References
Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 9 p. 33.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 907, ill. vol. II, as Environs de gardanne.
Apollo 1971
Apollo 108 (February 1971), p. 136, fig. 2.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 95, ill.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 62, fig. 41.
Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 397, no. 15, as Waterfront Landscape.
Parker 2011a
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 153, no. 17 in fig. 65, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Notes

Rewald (1983, p.108) argues against the site being Gardanne. "The apparent flatness of the site and the large body of water in the foreground are incompatible with the landscape that extends between Aix-en-Provence and Mont Sainte-Victore."

Record last updated May 17, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage au bord de l'eau, 1878–80 (FWN 1055)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1072 (accessed on April 26, 2024).