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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
Digital Image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
Montross Gallery, New York (April 13, 1917)
John Quinn, New York
Lillie P. Bliss, New York (c. 1925-26);
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1934)
Exhibition History
1914 Rome
Secessione, II. Internationale, Rome, Seconda esposizione internationale d'arte della 'Secessione", February–June 1914, no. 17, as La scarpata, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 20, as Rocky Ridge.1919a New York
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.1926 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926, no no.1931–32 New York and traveling
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 1932.1934c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 20, ill.1936e New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 2–April 19, 1936, no. 38, as Rocky Ridge, dated c. 1900.1947 Wellesley
Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, [unknown title], 1947, no no.1947 San Francisco
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.1952 Chicago and traveling
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, 1952.1954–55 New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition, 1954–55, no no.1971 Auckland
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. 1900.1971–72 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1972.1972c New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, European Drawings from the Collection, June 27–October 10, 1972, n.n.1973–74 New York and traveling
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, 1974.1974a New York
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, 1895-1900.1977–78 New York and traveling
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).1978a Paris
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.1982–83 New York and traveling
Museum of Modern Art, New York, A Century of Modern Drawing 1881-1981, 1982–83, no no.1990 Aix-en-Provence
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.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
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).2000 Vienna and traveling
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).2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2011–12b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gifted: Collector and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983, October 19, 2011–February 12, 2012, no no.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 76, ill.2020 Princeton and traveling
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).2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 161, Museum of Modern Art, New York.Published References
Wright 1916b
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.Quinn 1926
Quinn, John. The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture. Foreword by Forbes Watson. Hunstville, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926, p. 7.Barr 1934
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Cubism and Abstract Art. New York, 1934, no. 38.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1043, ill. vol. II, as Rochers à Bibémus.Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 107.Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 26.Barr 1942
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.Nicodemi 1944
Nicodemi, Giogio. Cézanne: 76 Disegni. Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 65, ill.Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, p. 29, ill.Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 86.Reff 1963a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Logical Mystery." Art News 62, no. 2 (April 1963), p. 28.Barr 1977
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 435, ill. and color pl. 10.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 220, ill.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. 146.Giles and Armstrong 2002
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 3.Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 24.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 125.Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 133, fig. 93.Kyle 2010
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 2011
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 2014
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 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 216, fig. 146.Eiling 2017
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 12.Dauberville 2020
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 2020a
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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.
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 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 April 24, 2024).
