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Catalogue entry

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)
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (Thaw Collection)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Vallotton, Lausanne
Private collection, Switzerland
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Lazarus Phillips, Montreal, Canada
Georges Bernier, Paris and New York
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York;
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Exhibition History
1956 Neuchâtel
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1956.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 76, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Phillips.
1963f New York
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.
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. 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.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1975–76 New York and traveling
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).
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
1996–97a London
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.
2002b New York
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, David to Cézanne: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings, June 6–September 8, 2002, no. 96, as Trees.
2017–18 New York and traveling
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 1960b
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 118, fig. 27.
Elderfield 1971
Elderfield, John. "Drawing in Cézanne." Artforum 9, no. 10 (June 1971), p. 56, ill.
Rubin, W. 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 101.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 538, ill.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 53, ill.
Brettell 2017
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 et. al. 2017
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 5, 2024).