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 1444
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
c.1900
Alternate titles: Alberi in montagna; Arbres devant la montagne (Montagne Sainte-Victoire); Landscape with the Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Ste.-Victoire; Montage Saint-Victoire; Trees on the Mountain; Tress on a Mountainside
Rewald (W499); Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1018): 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
Watermark: "GOLFIER SAINT MARCEL ANNONAY" at right edge
12 9/16 x 19 3/4 in. (32 x 50.2 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, New York;
Exhibition History
Rome, Prima esposizione internazionale d'arte della 'Secessione," March–April 1913, no. 677.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Secessione, II. Internationale, Rome, Seconda esposizione internationale d'arte della 'Secessione," February–June 1914, no. 24, as Alberi in montagna, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 12, as Trees on the Mountain.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, no. 55 (lent by Lillie P. Bliss).
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 20, ill., as Tress on a Mountainside. 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. 17, ill., as Mont Ste.-Victoire.
Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935, no. 30.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 21–June 11, 1935, no. 30.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 114, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1900-06, lent by Mr. Siegfried Kramarsky, New York. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 87, 1900-06, lent by S. Kramarsky, New York.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 79, ill. lent by Kramarsky.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 82, ill. lent by Dr. Sonja Kramarsky.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 52, pl. LI, as Montage Saint-Victoire, 1897-1900, lent by Dr. Sonja Binkhorst-Kramarsky, New York.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 30, ill.
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, New York, A Sense of Place, Landscape of the 19th & 20th Centuries, January 22–February 5, 2021, no. 39, ill., as Landscape with the Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Impressionists on Paper, Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, November 25, 2023–March 10, 2024, no. 73, ill. lent by Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London.
Published References
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 17.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1018, ill. vol. II, as Montage Saint-Victoire.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 101, as Mont Ste.-Victoire.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 651.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 499, ill.
Keyes, George S. "Reconsideration of Late Variants of Cézanne's 'Theme of Mont Sainte-Victoire.'" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts vol. 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 36, fig. 6.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 352, ill., as Arbres devant la montagne (Montagne Sainte-Victoire) (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 97).
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Record last updated January 10, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c.1900 (FWN 1444)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1481 (accessed on January 22, 2025).
