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)
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FWN 1390
Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir
1895–1900
Alternate titles: Ensablement de rochers (Bibémus); La scarpata; Rochers à Bibémus; Rocks at Bibémus; Rocks at Le Château Noir; Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir; Rocky Ridge; Trees and Rocks
Rewald (W435): 1895–1900; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1043)
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Watermark: MONTGOLFIER
12 1/2 x 18 11/16 in. (31.7 x 47.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Secessione, II. Internationale, Rome, Seconda esposizione internationale d'arte della 'Secessione", February–June 1914, no. 17, as La scarpata, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Arden Gallery, New York, The Evolution of French Art from Ingres and Delacroix to the Latest Manifestations, April–May 1919, no. 100?, as Trees and Rocks.
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926, no no.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 18. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 20, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 2–April 19, 1936, no. 38, as Rocky Ridge, dated c. 1900.
Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, [unknown title], 1947, no no.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 19th Century French Drawings, March 8–April 6, 1947, no. 112, 1895-1890, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 106, ill., as Rocks at Bibémus, 1895-1900, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition, 1954–55, no no.
City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, From Cézanne through Picasso: 100 Drawings from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 7–October 17, 1971, no. 11, ill., and cover, as Rocks at Le Château Noir, c. 1900.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, From Cézanne through Picasso: 100 Drawings from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 1–June 20, 1971, no. 11, ill. in b/w and cover, as Rocks at Le Château Noir, c. 1900. Traveled to: Ishibashi Museum, Kurume, Japan, July 1–August 1, 1971; City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, September 7–October 17, 1971; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, November 11, 1971–January 2, 1972; Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, January 17–February 5, 1972; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, February 18–March 26, 1972; Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, April 15–June 4, 1972.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, European Drawings from the Collection, June 27–October 10, 1972, n.n.
Museum of Modern Art (International Council), New York, 100 European Drawings from the Museum of Modern art, New York, 1973–74, n.n. Traveled to: Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, April 15–July 2, 1973; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, September 21–November 4, 1973; Rotonda di via Besana, Milan, November 30, 1973–January 6, 1974; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, February 15–March 24, 1974.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France: selections from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, June 13–September 8, 1974, no. 21, ill. p. 20, as Rocks at Le Château Noir, 1895-1900.
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. 85, ill., pl. 45, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 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. 46, ill. in b/w, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, A Century of Modern Drawing 1881-1981, 1982–83, no no.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 12, fig. 238, 1895-1900, lent by Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 151, ill. in color, p. 368, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 40, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 118, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895-96, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; shown in Zurich only. 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., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 93, ill. lent by Museum of Modern Art, NY; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gifted: Collector and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983, October 19, 2011–February 12, 2012, no no.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 76, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 18, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir, dated 1895–1900, to be shown in Princeton 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. 161, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Published References
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Quinn, John. The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture. Foreword by Forbes Watson. Hunstville, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926, p. 7.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1043, ill. vol. II, as Rochers à Bibémus.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 26.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 100, as Rocky Ridge.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 86.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 530, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 435, ill. and color pl. 10.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 146.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 3.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 166, fig. 4.21, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 24.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 125.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 133, fig. 93.
Kyle, Jill Anderson. "Cézanne, the 'Plastic', and American Artist/Critics." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 72, fig. 2.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 617, no. 1473, ill. in color, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, 1895-1900.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 181, fig. 68d, with color photo of motif, fig. 68c, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 216, fig. 146.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 12.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 360, ill., as Ensablement de rochers (Bibémus).
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 18, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir, dated 1895–1900.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 182, fig. 7, as Rocks near the Caves above Château Noir.
Record last updated December 20, 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 1390)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1417 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
