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 1453
Arbre tordu et citerne dans le parc de Château Noir
1900–02
Alternate titles: L'arbre tordu; Landscape; Le parc au Château Noir; Parc du Château Noir; Zisterne im Park des Château Noir (Citerne dans le parc de Château Noir)
Rewald (W532); Venturi revised: 1900–06; Venturi (1038): 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
17 11/16 x 11 3/4 in. (45 x 29.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 52, as L'arbre tordu, tentative idenfication.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne, December 19, 1939–January 8, 1940, no. 8, as Landscape.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The E.M. Remarque Collection, November 23, 1942–July 26, 1943, no number listed.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Remarque Collection, October 18–November 13, 1943, no. 34, as Parc du Château Noir.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 86, 1900-06, lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 108, 1900/06, lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 104, ill., as Le parc au Château Noir, 1900-1905, lent by M. Erich-Maria Remarque, Porto-Ronco.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 20.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Cézanne Watercolors from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, April 14–September 30, 1972, no number listed.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 13, ill.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 43, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 78, ill., as Zisterne im Park des Château Noir (Citerne dans le parc de Château Noir), 1900-04, lent by Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984, no number listed.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 140, ill., as Arbre tordu et citerne dans le parc de Château Noir, 1900-02, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003. (Exhibition catalogue: Simms 2002), no. 9, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 107, ill. lent by Pearlman Foundation; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 148, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Cinq aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris and New York: Quatre chemins and Raymond & Raymond, n.d. [1936], pl. 3.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1038, ill. vol. II, as Parc du Château Noir.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, pp. 39 and 48, pl. 4.
Keers, Frits. "Lausanne 1964." Journaal van de nederlandse Musea voor moderne Kunst 10, no. 4 (1965), p. 97, ill.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 94.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 532, ill.
Vuillemin, Madeleine. "Versuche über Cézannes späte Aquarelle." University of Zurich, 1989, pl. IV.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 349; vol. 2, p. 228, as Arbre tordu et citerne dans le parc de Château Noir.
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 268-270, no. 34, ill.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 153 and 156, fig. 97 (cat. 16).
Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Arbre tordu et citerne dans le parc de Château Noir, 1900–02 (FWN 1453)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1514 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
