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 1496
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1902–06
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire, seen from the Lauves; Mont Ste. Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Mount Sainte Victoire; The Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (W587); Venturi revised: c.1906; Venturi (1030): 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on paper
14 3/16 x 21 5/8 in. (36 x 55 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 68, ill., as The Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1900, lent by Hugh Walpole.
National Gallery, London, The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions, April 2–June 14, 1942, no. 23, as Mont Ste. Victoire, Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole.
The Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (C.E.M.A.), United Kingdom, Selection from the Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions, September 1942–September 1943, no. 8, as Mont Ste. Victoire. Traveled to: Art Gallery, Clarence-street, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, September 5–?, 1942; New Street galleries of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, United Kingdom, November 6–29, 1942; Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, December 1942; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom, January 1943; Bath Museum and Art Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom, February 10–March 3, 1943; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom, March 8–April 3, 1943; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, July–August 1943; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom, August–September 1943 ("A collection of paintings and drawings acquired by the Tate Gallery during the war is now on view at the Laing Art Gallery. [...] a characterictic Cezanne [...]" , "Wartime art" in Newcastle Journal and North Mail, August 23, 1943, p. 2).
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 19, as Mount Sainte Victoire, 1900-1906, lent by Tate Gallery, London. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 99, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 170, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, seen from the Lauves, lent by the Trustees of the Tate Gallery. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 82, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902-06, lent by the Tate Gallery, London. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 94, ill. in b/w, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902-06, lent by the Tate Gallery, London.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 77, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1905-06, lent by The Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 47, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902-1906, lent by Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 69, ill. in color, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by The Tate Gallery, London.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 206, ill. in color, p. 479, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902-1906, lent by Tate Gallery, London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 50, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 16, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 132, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902-06, lent by Tate Gallery, London. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 165, ill. lent by Tate Gallery; shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 38, ill., as Mount Sainte Victoire.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 37, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1905-1906, lent by Tate Gallery, London.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 100, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 106, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, to be shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 181, Tate, London.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 126, ill. 1905–06, Reflection: "Then and Now" by Phyllida Barlow, pp. 195–96. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1030, ill. vol. II, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, frontispiece, no. 22, Tate Gallery, London.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 18.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 35, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1900-06.
Alley, Ronald. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London: Tate Gallery, 1959, p. 35, pl. 22i (comments by R. Alley discussed above).
Rawson, Philipp. "Intimate Scaffolding'/Cézanne's Drawings and Watercolors." International Studio (January 1974), p. 25, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 37.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 28, ill.
Leymarie, Jean and Monnier, Geneviève and Rose, Bernice. Le Dessin. Geneva: Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1979, p. 199, ill.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 391, ill.
Alley, Ronald. The Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art. London, 1981, no, 5303, ill.; comments p. 108.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 149.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 587, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 218, ill.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 47, ill.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 10, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 133.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 622, no. 1484, ill. in color, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1905-1906.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 233, fig 160.
Dumas, Ann. "Cézanne and his love affair with the rocks of Provence." RA Magazine (Summer 2020), ill.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 12.
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Record last updated May 15, 2020. 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 vue des Lauves, 1902–06 (FWN 1496)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1570 (accessed on April 16, 2024).
