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Catalogue entry

FWN 65
Le Moulin à huile
c.1872
Alternate titles: Chaumières à Auvers; Le moulin à huile; Le Moulin à l'huile; The Oil Mill
Rewald (186): c.1872; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Venturi (136): 1870–71; Cooper: c.1872; Gowing: c.1872 (Edinburgh) and c.1871 (London)
Oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (37 x 45 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3365, peinture à l'huile représentant un paysage avec des petites chaumières, ciel bleu foncé, 36 x 48 cm (250 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 5248, maisons; huile, 38 x 45 (8,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 351, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1870
Christie's, New York

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Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
(Adolphe Tavernier, Paris?);
(Tavernier Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 6, 1900, no. 10?)
(Docteur X [Paulin] Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 21, 1901, no. 10?)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, and Jos. Hessel, Paris (October 13, 1913)
Jos. Hessel, Paris (July 1, 1916)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris, France
Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London (June 9, 1937)
C.W. Boise, London (June 9, 1937);
Sotheby's, London, Apr. 24, 1968, no. 70, ill.
Jack Lyons, London
Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1976, no. 47, ill.; bought in
Christie's, London, Nov. 30 1987, no. 36A, ill.; bought in
Lady Lyons, London
Christie's, New York, Nov. 9, 2006, no. 318, ill.
Christie's, New York, Nov. 4, 2009, no. 227, ill.
Exhibition History
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 7, as The Oil Mill, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 7, as Le Moulin à huile, lent by Vollard.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1937b New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 4, as Le Moulin à l'huile, dated 1870–71.
1947–48 Brussels
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, De David à Cézanne, November 1947–January 1948, no. 136, (size reversed), as Chaumières à Auvers, tentative identification, lent by Private collection.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 9, as Le Moulin à l'huile, lent by C.W. Boise. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
1954 Oslo
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 3, as Le Moulin à l'huile, lent by C.W. Boise.
1960 Cardiff
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom, How Impressionism Began, July 16–August 21, 1960, no. 53.
1988–89a London and traveling
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 59, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Published References
American Art News 1916
"Cézanne at Montross." American Art News 14, no. 14 (January 8, 1916), p. 2 (mentioned), as The Old Mill [sic].
New York Times Magazine 1916
"A Representative Group of Cézannes Here." New York Times Magazine, January 2, 1916, p. 21.
Wright 1916b
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Klingsor 1923
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 13.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 136, ill. vol. II, as Le Moulin à huile.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as ...paysage ...
Studio 1940
Dunlop, R.O. "The need for Permanent Values in the Art of our Time." The Studio (April 1940), p. 119, ill., as Le Moulin à huile.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 290, fig. 146.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 50, ill.
Rewald 1996
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. 186, ill. vol. 2, as Le Moulin à l'huile.
Lewis 2010
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Epilogue: Cézanne and Abstract Expressionism." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 131, fig. 4.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 80, ill., as Le moulin à huile.
Record last updated December 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Moulin à huile, c.1872 (FWN 65)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=192 (accessed on April 26, 2024).