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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich
Paul Cassirer, Berlin
John Nicholas Brown, Providence, Rhode Island;
Private collection;
Christie's, New York, May 7, 2014, no. 146, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1927e Berlin
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].
1935 Providence
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, [unknown title], 1935.
1941 Omaha
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, [unknown title], 1941.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
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.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1050, ill. vol. II, as La carrière de Bibémus.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 441, ill.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
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.
Notes

[Rochers à Bibémus, 1895–1900 (1384)] is a study of the right side of this motif.

Rochers à Bibémus, 1895–1900 (FWN 1383). Recent photograph of the motif
Recent photograph of the motif
Photo: Courtesy Didier Bonfort
Rochers à Bibémus, 1895–1900 (FWN 1383). Recent photograph of motif near Bibémus Quarry
Recent photograph of motif near Bibémus Quarry
Photo: J. Warman

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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 May 2, 2025).