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Catalogue entry

FWN 73
La Route tournante en sous-bois
c.1873
Alternate titles: Chemin en forêt; Landschaft; Paysage; Road in a Forest; Route tournante en sous-bois
Rewald (197): c.1873; Venturi revised: 1873–75; Venturi (140): 1873–75
Oil on canvas
21 11/16 x 18 in. (55.2 x 45.7 cm)
Solomon M. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Partial Gift, George Tetzel in memory of Oscar Homolka and Joan Tetzel Homolka)

Keywords

Provenance
Camille Pissarro, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1908-1917)
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne
Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne
Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (July 15, 1927);
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York;
Thannhauser Collection, Parke-Bernet, New York, Apr. 12, 1945, no. 102, ill.
Sam Salz, New York
Oskar Homolka, New York and London;
George Tetzel, New York;
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1980)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 2, as Chemin en forêt, for sale.
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 6, as Road in a Forest, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1927c Berlin
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 17, as Landschaft, lent by Wendland?
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 11, lent by Thannhauser.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 9, as Route tournante en sous-bois, lent by Thannhauser ("exhibited for the first time").
1967 London
Lefevre Gallery, London, 19th and 20th Century French Paintings, 1967, no. 4.
1969a London
Lefevre Gallery, London, 19th and 20th Century French Paintings, 1969, no. 5, ill.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 4, ill.
2019 Aix-en-Provence
Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Guggenheim: de Manet à Picasso, la collection Thannhauser, May 1–September 29, 2019, p. 88, ill., as La Route tournante en sous-bois, c. 1873-1875.
Published References
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. cxxxi.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 140, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante en sous-bois.
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. 145.
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. 197, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante en sous-bois.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 123, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 93; vol. 2, p. 82, as La Route tournante en sous-bois.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 87, ill., as Paysage, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 86.
Record last updated April 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante en sous-bois, c.1873 (FWN 73)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=201 (accessed on April 24, 2024).