The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 564
Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne
1860–61
Alternate titles: Herbst; L'Automne; Les Quatres Saisons
Rewald: (7) 1860–61; Venturi: (6)
Wall painting, detached and mounted on canvas
123 5/8 x 40 7/8 in. (314 x 104 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 5510, L'Automne (18,750 Fr)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Hessel, Paris, [Quatre panneaux décoratifs de Cézanne], April, 1918.
Petit Palais, Paris, Un siècle d'art français, 1850–1950, 1953, no. 402, as Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne, 1852-1862.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 1d, ill. p. 6 (p. 19 French ed.) fig. 4 photograph of the alcove in the salon of the Jas de Bouffan with Les quatre saisons. 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.
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, Die großen Sammlungen VII: Von Ingres bis Cézanne, Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung des Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, May 27–September 27, 1998, no. 193, ill., as L'Automne, 1861-62.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 5, lent by Petit Palais, shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 5, ill. lent by Petit Palais, musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 17, ill.
Published References
Pératé, André. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 38, periode 3 (November, 1907), p. 388.
Faure, Élie. "Paul Cézanne." L'Art décoratif 13, no. 157 (October 5, 1911), p. 115.
Allard, Roger. "Die Kennzeichen der erneuerung in der Malerei." In Der Blaue Reiter. Munich: Piper & Co. 1912, p. 35, ill.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 169 as Herbst.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne's Studio." The Soil 1, no. 3 (March 1917), ill. between pp. 106 and 107 (detail).
Le Curieux. "Quatre panneaux décoratifs de Cézanne." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1918), pp. 33-34 as L'Automne.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 190.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, p. 41, as les quatre Saisons.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1920, pl. 188.
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 34.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 188.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 13, 69 (detail), 196 (listed) as L'Automne, dated 1863, Hessel.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 1] as L'Automne.
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 100, ill. (detail).
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 25.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 3, ill.
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, pp. 145–47, pl. 12.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 38.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pls. II and III.
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 38.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 6, ill. vol. II as Les Quatres Saisons.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 13.
Mack, Gerstle. La Vie de Paul Cézanne. Translated by Nancy Bouwens. Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ill. opposite p. 129.
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 1.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 5, ill.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 2, listed p. 141, erroneously entitled L'Eté.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 78, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. "Au Jas de Bouffan." L'Oeil 2 (February 15, 1955), p. 15, ill. p. 16.
Elles, Iris. Das Stilleben in der französischen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zurich: Origo Verl, 1958, pp. 100–01.
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 22, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 16.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 4.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, ill. p. 55.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 4, ill.
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, ill. pp. 10, 14–15.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 17, ill. in color.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175.
Bernard, Bruce. The Impressionist Revolution. London: Orbis, 1986, p. 112, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 46, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 45, ill. in b/w.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 67, ill.
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 29.
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. 7, ill. vol. 2 and p. 21, ill. col. vol. 1 as Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 25, pl. 9.
Wagner, Christoph. "'Primitivismus' und Konstruktion des Sichtbaren. Facetten der Cézanne Rezeption in der Kunstheorie der Moderne und im russischen Cézanneismus." In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 122, fig. 2.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence, The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 82, fig. 2.30 as Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 43, ill. in color.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 335, pl. 156.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and the meaning of 'copying.'" Bijutsu Forum 21 31 (May 2015), p. 118, ill.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 112, ill.
"What Copying Meant to Cezanne." Aesthetics, no. 21 (2018), fig. 8.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 84d p. 101, (figs. 226, 227 digital reconstitutions of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon before and after 1867 pp. 242-243).
Record last updated May 29, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne, 1860–61 (FWN 564)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=23 (accessed on January 20, 2021).
