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FWN 1130
La Vallée de l'Arc
c.1885
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Vallée de l'Arc (vue du Tubet); Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Ste. Victoire; Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre; The Valley of the Arc; Vallée de l'Arc; Valley of the Arc
Rewald (W241); Venturi revised: 1886–87; Cézanne fils: c.1888 (in Orangerie catalogue, 1936); Venturi (914): 1883–87; Rivière: 1887; Gowing: 1887 (because Cézanne is not documented in the south in 1888)
Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on wove paper
13 15/16 x 21 1/8 in. (35.4 x 53.7 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Marshall Field IV)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Otto Wertheimer, Paris
Knoedler Galleries, New York
Mrs. Henry T. Mudd, Los Angeles (1959)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (1964)
Marshall Field IV, Chicago (1964);
The Art Institute of Chicago (1964)
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 33, as Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre, lent by Cézanne fils.
1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 122, ill., pl. XXXIX, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1888, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 72, as Montagne Ste. Victoire, c. 1885, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
1937 New York
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 2, as Vallée de l'Arc.
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 49, ill. in b/w, pl. XVI, as La Vallée de l'Arc, 1883-1887, lent by Cézanne fils.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 33, as Vallée de l'Arc, 1883-87, lent by Cézanne fils.
1946c London and traveling
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 18, as Valley of the Arc, 1888, lent anonymously. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 41, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 28, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1885-87, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Marshall Field IV (Inv.-No. 1964.199). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
1987–88 Düsseldorf and traveling
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Alfred Flechtheim: Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger, September 20–November 1, 1987, no. 22, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1883-87. Traveled to: Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany, November 29, 1987–January 17, 1988.
1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, hors catalogue.
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 42, ill. in color, as The Valley of the Arc, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 94, ill. in color, p. 262, as La Vallée de l'Arc, c. 1885, lent by The Art Institute Chicago, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 111, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 12.
Severini 1936
Severini, Gino. "Cézanne: A proposito dell'esposizione parigina." Emporium 84, no. 502 (October 1936), p. 397, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 914, ill. vol. II, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 84.
Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 33, no. 20, ill. (dated 1883-87), Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Johnson 1963a
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), fig. 7, p. 22.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1965
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1153 (February 1965), p. 63, no. 248, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Elgar 1968
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. Paris: A. Somogy, 1968, p. 249, ill.
Joachim and Olsen 1978
Joachim, Harold, and Sandra Haller Olsen. French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, 1978, no. 1C2.
Kunsthaus Zürich 1982
"Paul Cézanne - Aquarelle." Kunsthaus Zürich - Mitteilungsblatt der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (Zurich) 2.82 (1982), ill. p. 8.
Musée Saint-Georges Liège 1982
Cézanne. Liège: Musée Saint-Georges, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 135.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 241, ill. and color pl. 28.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 103, fig. 70.
Mitchell 2009
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 287, fig. 10.8
Tedeschi 2010
Tedeschi, Martha. John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Chicago and New Haven: AIC & Yale University Press, 2010, p. 80-81, fig. 70.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 609, no. 1459, ill. in color, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1885.
Coutagne 2015
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 54.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 225, fig. 152.
Bonfort 2016
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 15, ill., as La Vallée de l'Arc (vue du Tubet), with photo of motif, p. 14.
Kaufmann 2018
Kaufmann, Bettina. Paul Cezanne: Die Bilder seiner Ausstellung Paris 1907 besucht, betrachtet und beschrieben von Rainer Maria Rilke. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2018, no. 33, p. 191, ill., as Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Vallée de l'Arc, c.1885 (FWN 1130)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1221 (accessed on April 29, 2024).