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 1189
Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin)
c.1890
Alternate titles: Baum; Baumast; Baumstudie; Baumstudie (Etude pour un arbre); Chestnut Tree; Der Kastanienbaum; Etude pour un arbre; Kastanienbaum; Le Châtaignier; Le Grand Pin (étude); Le grand pin, étude d'arbre; Pine tree; Study for a Tree; Tree Study
Rewald (W287); Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (1024): 1885–90
Watercolor on paper
10 7/8 x 17 3/16 in. (27.7 x 43.7 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles & pastels de Cézanne, H.E. Cross, Degas, Jongkind, Camille Pissarro, K.X. Roussel, Paul Signac, Vuillard, May 3–15, 1909, no. 1, as Le Châtaignier.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 50, as Le Châtaignier.
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 7, as Chestnut Tree.
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 28, as Le Châtaignier, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 427, as Der Kastanienbaum, [lent by Bernheim-Jeune], for sale.
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 117, as Kastanienbaum.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 46, as Baumast, lent by Paul Cassirer pr.
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 24, as Baum, for sale.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung:1910-1930, May 26–August 11, 1935, no. 225, as Baum, Inv. Nr. 2374.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 51, as Etude pour un arbre, 1885-1890, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 57, as Study for a Tree, c. 1885, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July 25–September 26, 1943, no. 545, as Baumstudie.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Europäische Kunst, 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert, June 6–August 13, 1950, listed p. 26, as Baumstudie, 1885/90, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 66, ill. 1885-90, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 72, lent by Kunsthaus Zurich.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 81, 1885/90, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 69, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: pp. 164-165, as Pine tree, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 37, ill., as Baumstudie (Etude pour un arbre), c. 1890, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich, Graphische Sammlung (Inv.-No. 2374). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 51, ill. lent by Kunsthaus Zürich. 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.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 156, ill. in color, p. 377, as Le grand pin, étude d'arbre, c. 1890, lent by Kunsthaus, Zürich, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 97, ill., as Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin), c. 1890, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, January 28–April 22, 2001, pl. 21, as Tree Study, Kunsthaus Zurich.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin), c. 1890, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 171, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1024, ill. vol. II, as Etude pour un arbre.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 11.
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), fig. 5.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 26, ill.
Wadley, Nicholas. "Cézanne Water-colours and Drawings at the Hayward Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 849 (December 1973), p. 831.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 148, ill., as Etude pour un arbre, 1895-1900.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "Die Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne und die Kunst Ostasiens." Du 42, no. 4 (September 1982), p. 15, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 141.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 287, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 145, fig. 76.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 104, fig. 73.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 618, no. 1475, ill. in color, as Le Grand Pin (étude), c. 1890.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 214, fig. 144.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L’exemple de Cézanne; Cézanne le précurseur. Lugano: Pagine d’Arte, 2016, listed p. [10], ill. p. [13] and cover (detail).
Notes
According to Rewald (1983, p. 153), "[T]he specific tree has been identified as Le grand Pin de Bellevue."
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin), c.1890 (FWN 1189)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1268 (accessed on December 9, 2024).
