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 1438
Groupe d'arbres
c.1900
Alternate titles: Arbres; Trees
Rewald (W538); Venturi revised: 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 x 11 3/4 in. (45.7 x 29.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1956.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 76, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Phillips.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 62, pl. LVIII, as Arbres, 1900-1906, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Philips, Montreal.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 55, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 80, ill., as Arbres, c. 1900, lent by M. and Mme E. V. Thaw, New York. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, December 10, 1975–February 15, 1976, no. 99, ill., as Trees. Traveled to: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, March 16–May 2, 1976; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, May 28–July 5, 1976; National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada, August 6–September 17, 1976 (Dessins de la collection M. et Mme Eugene V. Thaw).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 194, ill. in color, p. 194, as Groupe d'arbres, c. 1900, lent by The Morgan Library, New York, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, From Mantegna to Picasso: Drawings from the Thaw Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, November 9, 1996–January 23, 1997, no. 79, ill., as Trees.
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, David to Cézanne: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings, June 6–September 8, 2002, no. 96, as Trees.
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, September 29, 2017–January 7, 2018, no. 46 of Catalogue Raisonné, ill., as Trees. Traveled to: Clark Art Institue, Williamstown, Massachusetts, February 3–April 29, 2018.
Published References
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 118, fig. 27.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 101.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 538, ill.
Brettell, Richard R. "Charting New Territory: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing." In Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 29.
Tonkovich, Jennifer et Giada Damen. "Catalogue Raisonné." In Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, Tonkovich, Jennifer, ed. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 46, ill., as Trees, c. 1900-1906.
Record last updated May 7, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe d'arbres, c.1900 (FWN 1438)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1520 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
