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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 1237
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1888–90
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Sainte-Victoire; Sainte-Victoire-Gebirge
Rewald (W284); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1026): 1890–95; Rivière: 1887
Watercolor on wove paper
12 x 18 11/16 in. (30.5 x 47.5 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York
Charles C. Cunningham, Hartford, Chicago and Williamstown, Massachusetts (Jan. 1937);
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Exhibition History
1907d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, no. 7, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Cezanne fils.1907 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, I. Ausstellung, September 30–October 18, 1907, no. 5, as Sainte-Victoire-Gebirge.1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 31, lent by Cézanne fils; tentative identification.1908 Dresden
Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Dresden, Germany, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, April–May 1908, no. 5, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.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. 125, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1875, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.1937 New York
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 11, as Sainte-Victoire.1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 45, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890-95, lent anonymously.1939 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, no. 147.1939–40 Columbus
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne, December 19, 1939–January 8, 1940, no. 9, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.1948 Northampton
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Some Paintings from Alumni Collections, 1948, no no.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. 45. 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. 30, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1889-90, lent by Smith College Museum of Art, Northhamptom, MA - Bequest of Charles C. Cunningham in Memory of Eleanor Lamont Cunningham (Inv.-No. 32, 1980). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, ill. opp. p. 174, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1026, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 284, ill.Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Paul Cézanne, Curt Herrmann, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch: 30. September bis 18. Oktober 1907." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1905-1908. vol. 3, "Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 520, ill.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. 16, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.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. 31, p. 70 et p. 191, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Record last updated August 18, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1888–90 (FWN 1237)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1265 (accessed on May 20, 2024).
