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 1285
Le grand arbre
c.1890
Alternate titles: Arbre; Der große Baum (Le grand arbre); Der grosse Baum; L'arbre; The Forest
Rewald (W349); Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (939): 1890–98
Graphite and watercolor on paper
19 7/8 x 25 9/16 in. (50.5 x 65 cm)
Private collection, Germany
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Blot, Paris, [Aquarelles de Cézanne], November 17–29, 1913, extended until mid-December. (tentative identification).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 16?, as Arbre, aquarelle.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 5, as The Forest.
Société des peintres-graveurs français, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, XXe exposition including Rétrospectives Paul Cézanne et P.-A. Renoir, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, lithographies, March 24–April 15, 1933, no. 20, as L'arbre.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer Loan Show, 1948, no no.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, Summer 1950, no. 3, as The Forest.
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Summer Loan Show, 1951, no no.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer Loan show, 1955, no no.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, 1956, no no.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1957, no no.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, The Warburg Collection, 1958, no no.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer Loan Show, 1959, no no.
Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M.M. Warburg, 1960, no. 2.
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, Summer Loan Show, 1961, no no.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer Loan Show, 1961, no no.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 38, pl. XXXV, as Le grand arbre, 1895-98, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, New York.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Twelve Masterworks from the Collection of Edward M. M. Warburg, 1964, no no.
Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M.M. Warburg, 1965, no no.
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, [unknown title], 1966, no no.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 18, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 12.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer Loan Show, 1969, no no.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 44, ill., as Der große Baum (Le grand arbre), 1890-95, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 31, ill., as Le grand arbre, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 16, ill.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co., September 17, 2011–January 29, 2012, listed p. 283, ill. p. 66, as Der grosse Baum, 1890-95.
Published References
Waldemar-George. Cézanne: Aquarelles. Paris: Editions des quatre chemins, 1926, pl. 10, collection E. Blot.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 939, ill. vol. II, as Le grand arbre.
T.C.H., Jr. "The Taste of Two Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg." Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor VIII, no. 4 (August 1950), no. 3, as The Forest.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 349, ill.
Record last updated March 12, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le grand arbre, c.1890 (FWN 1285)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1330 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
