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Catalogue entry

FWN 1232
Rochers à Bibémus
1887–90
Alternate titles: L'escarpement; Maisons sur l'escarpement or Rochers à Bibémus or L'escarpement; Rochers de Bibémus; Roches dans la carrière de "Bibémus"; Rocks at Bibémus; The Ledge
Rewald (W306); Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1046): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Watermark: Canson Ingres
18 1/16 x 12 1/2 in. (45.9 x 31.8 cm)
Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, New York (on extended loan to the Princeton Art Museum)
Rochers à Bibémus, 1887–90 (FWN 1232). Verso: Landscape with foliage
Verso: Landscape with foliage

Keywords

Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
Montross Gallery, New York (March 27, 1916)
Stephan Bourgeois Gallery, New York
Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, New York;
Sullivan Collection, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 29–May 1, 1937, no. 61, ill.
Lionello Venturi, Rome
E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York
Samuel A. Berger, New York;
Berger Estate, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 27, 1972, no. 56, ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York (1972);
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, New York (1982)
Exhibition History
1913 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 18, as L'escarpement, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
1915 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Französische Klassiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, May 2–30, 1915, no. 75, as L'escarpement (tentative identification).
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 25, as The Ledge.
1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 75, ill. lent by Col. Samuel A. Berger; dated circa 1895.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 98, c. 1895, lent by S. A. Berger, New York.
1956c New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 15, ill. lent by Mr. Samuel A. Berger.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 78, ill. lent by Col. Samuel A. Berger.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 72, pl. 42, c. 1895-1900.
1961 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 28, ill. in color, pl.18, as Roches dans la carrière de "Bibémus", 1887-1890, lent by Colonel Samuel A. Berger, New York.
1966b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July–September 1966, no. 25, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman.
1967 Pasadena
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 25, ill.
1973 New York
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 7.
1974 Brooklyn and traveling
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
1977 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Prints, September 25–October 16, 1977, no number listed.
1980 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Drawings in the Pearlman Collection, February 5–April 17, 1980, no number listed.
1981 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.
1984 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984, no number listed.
1992 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne in the Collection of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, February 1–April 5, 1992, no number listed.
2002–03 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003. (Exhibition catalogue: Simms 2002), no. 3, ill. verso ill. p. 51.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 95, ill., (dated 1887–90), lent by Pearlman Foundation shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 7, ill., p. 149. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
2014–16 Oxford and traveling
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 6, ill. c. 1887-90. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
2018 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 158, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1046, ill. vol. II, as Rochers de Bibémus.
Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, pp. 3-4, no. I, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 306, ill.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 123, fig. 43, as Rocks at Bibémus, c. 1887-90.
Simms 2014b
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 167, fig. 107 (cat. 6).
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 246, fig. 173.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 107, c. 1887-90.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 363, ill., as Maisons sur l'escarpement or Rochers à Bibémus or L'escarpement (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 96).
Elderfield et al 2020
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 74, as Rocks at Bibémus, dated 1895–1900.
Record last updated March 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers à Bibémus, 1887–90 (FWN 1232)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1287 (accessed on May 4, 2024).