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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 1236
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
c.1888
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Ste. Victoire
Rewald (W288); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1563): 1890–1900
Watercolor on paper
11 x 17 1/2 in. (28 x 44.5 cm)
Private collection, U.S.A.
Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1907)
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (Jan. 1909);
Gertrude Stein, Paris (1913)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin
G. Perron, Berlin
Gustav Schweitzer, Berlin
Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles
Norton Simon, Los Angeles;
Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 21, 1971, no. 74, ill.; bought in
E.V. Thaw, New York
B.E. Bensinger Family, Chicago;
Christie's, London, April 15, 1975, no. 27, ill.
Private collection, Switzerland
Dickinson, London and New York
Private collection, U.S.A.
Exhibition History
1924a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 152, as Montagne Ste. Victoire, c. 1900, lent by Private collection.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. 47, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890-1900, lent by Dr. G. Schweitzer.1965 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Special exhibition for the College Art Association, 1965, no no.1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 31, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890, lent by Private collection, Switzerland. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 15, fig. 186, c. 1890, lent by Private collection.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 61, ill., (dated c. 1890), lent by Private collection; shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.Published References
Bernard 1924
Bernard, Émile. "Les aquarelles de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 34, as Dessin (Coll. Paul Rosenberg).Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1563, 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. 288, ill. and color pl. 25.Jean 1990
Jean, Raymond. "L'objet Sainte-Victoire." In Sainte-Victoire Cezanne 1990. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 208, ill. fig. 186.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 157.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. 18.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. 16 in fig. 65, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 210, ill.Record last updated January 6, 2021. 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, c.1888 (FWN 1236)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1269 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
