The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 1389
Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir
1895–1900
Alternate titles: Les rochers (Bibémus); Les rochers à Bibémus; Rochers à Bibémus; Rocks at Bibemus; Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir; The Rocks
Rewald (W433); Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1044): 1895–1900; Chappuis: c.1895
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
18 11/16 x 11 13/16 in. (47.5 x 30 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 45, as Rocks at Bibemus, 1895-1900, (with incorrect measurements), lent anonymously. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [W] 9, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Ward Cheney.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 17, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., April 9–May 4, 1957, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16–September 15, 1957.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 40, pl. XL, as Rochers à Bibémus, 1895-1900, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr, St. Louis.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 83, ill., pl. 43, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr, St. Louis. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 44, ill. in b/w, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Saint-Louis.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 91, ill. lent by Private collection; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 86, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir, dated 1895–1900, to be shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 157, Private collection.
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), pp. 26-27, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1044, ill. vol. II, as Rochers à Bibémus.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 27.
Les ventes de tableaux, aquarelles, gouaches, dessins, miniatures a l’Hôtel Drouot: répertoire et prix d’adjudication, septembre 1941 à juillet 1942. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1942, p. 32, as Les rochers à Bibémus.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 87.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 433, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 180, fig. 68a, with color photo of motif, fig. 68b, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 361, ill., as Les rochers (Bibémus) (installation photographs from 1914 exhibition, p. 96, and 1931, p. 126 (hung upside down).
Dumas, Ann. "Cézanne and his love affair with the rocks of Provence." RA Magazine (Summer 2020), ill.
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1934; © Sabine Rewald
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1934; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Record last updated August 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895–1900 (FWN 1389)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1415 (accessed on April 21, 2025).
