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 1383
Rochers à Bibémus
1895–1900
Alternate titles: Der Steinbruch von Bibémus (La carrière de Bibémus); Felsen; La carrière de Bibémus
Rewald (W441); Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1050): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
19 11/16 x 26 in. (50 x 66.1 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 30?, as Felsen, lent by Private collection Paris, formerly Moscow [actually Simon Meller].
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, [unknown title], 1935.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, [unknown title], 1941.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 48, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 62, ill., as Der Steinbruch von Bibémus (La carrière de Bibémus), 1895-1900, 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. 45, ill., as Rochers à Bibémus, lent by Collection of J. Carter Brown. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1050, ill. vol. II, as La carrière de Bibémus.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 441, ill.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 93, ill., contemporary photo of motif by Denis Coutagne, Pavel Machotka, p. 91, J. Carter Brown, Washington, DC.
Record last updated August 18, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers à Bibémus, 1895–1900 (FWN 1383)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1423 (accessed on February 7, 2025).