Catalogue entry

(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)

Count Enrico Costa, Florence (?)

Lillie P. Bliss, New York;

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Lillie P. Bliss Bequest);

Parke-Bernet, New York, May 11, 1944, no. 86, ill.

Mr. and Mrs. William Rosenwald, New York

Christie's, New York, May 15, 1990, no. 9, ill.

Private collection

Kunstmuseum Basel (1998)

Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 18, tentative identification, lent by Vollard.

Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 24.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 49.

Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913. A major exhibition with loans from European dealers and American collectors. See. J. Rewald, Cézanne and America, Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921 (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989), Chapters VII and VIII, no. 1070, as Landscape, lent by Lillie P. Bliss.

Arden Gallery, New York, [Cézanne], March, 1917. No catalogue seems to have been issued. All paintings were on loan, lent by Bliss.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Leopold Stokowski). Exhibition was organized by Arthur B. Carles and Carroll Tyson. Four watercolors and two lithographs by Cézanne were also shown. Other artists included Besnard, Braque, Cassatt, Courbet, Daumier, Degas, Denis, La Fresnaye, Derain, etc, no. 49, as Landscape, lent by Bliss.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921. An important loan exhibition from American collections, no. 5, as The Roadway, lent by anon. [Bliss].

Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926. No catalogue issued, lent by Miss Bliss.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929 (exhibition catalogue; foreword by A.H. Barr, Jr.). Six watercolors by Cézanne were also shown, no. 14, ill., (dated c. 1875), as Landscape, lent by private collection, N.Y.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930. One watercolor by Cézanne (no. 17) was also shown, no. 19, as Landscape, lent by Private collector, N.Y. [Bliss].

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 2, ill., as The Road. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, October 17–December 15, 1931. John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January, 1932.

Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Jerome Klein). A loan exhibition in which drawings, watercolors and prints were also shown, no. 5, (dated c. 1875), as The Road, lent by Museum of Modern Art.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 2, pl. 2.

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, French Paintings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, April 23–May 19, 1935, no. 1, as The Road.

Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935. Six watercolors by Cézanne were also shown, no. 5, as The Road.

City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, Twenty-Five Paintings from the Collection of Lillie P. Bliss, February–March 1935, no. 2.

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936 (exhibition catalogue, 2nd revised edition)
A major exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death. Catalogue notes by Charles Sterling, foreword by Jacques-Émile Blanche, and preface by Paul Jamot, no. 19, as La Route, lent by MoMA,

Paul Rosenberg, New York, 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters, November 15–December 18, 1948, no. 1, ill., lent by Rosenwald.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, February 17–March 31, 1963, no. 1070, ill., p. 53. Traveled to: Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6–28, 1963.

Armory of the 69th Street Regiment, New York, 1963.

Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988 (exhibition catalogue; text by Lawrence Gowing with contributions by Götz Adriani, Mary Tompkins Lewis, Mary Louise Krumrine, John Rewald, and Sylvie Patin), no. 61, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19–January 1, 1988. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, January 29–April 30, 1989.

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017. Curated by Anita Haldemann (exhibition catalogue), no. 159, ill.

Pène du Bois, Guy. "The Lillie P. Bliss Collection." Arts 17, no. 9 (June 1931), p. 608.

Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Bliss Collection." Creative Art 8 (May 1931), p. 357.

Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 2.

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 52, ill. vol. II as La Route.

Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 36, listed.

Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229, no. 1070.

Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 192, 193, 306, fig. 96.

Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 169, ill. vol. 2 as La Route.