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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 116
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan
c.1878
Alternate titles: Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Buffan; Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffan; The pool at the Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (380): c.1878; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (417): 1882–85; Machotka et al: 1881–82
Oil on canvas
29 x 23 1/5 in. (73.7 x 59.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3669, huile; paysage; au 1r plan une sorte de bassin, à gauche gros arbre, à dr[oite] plusieurs arbres, ciel d'un gris noirâtre, 74 x 60 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3803, Paysage; auprès d'une pièce d'eau, 73 x 60 cm (300 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 11, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Jas de Bouffan 1880
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 11, 1911)
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (March 13, 1911)
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Mar. 4, 1918)
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (Oct. 31, 1918)
Percy Moore Turner, London
[Ehrich Galleries, New York]
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1927)
Exhibition History
1927a Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 1927.1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 12, as Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.1928 Buffalo
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, [Goodyear Collection], June–August 1928, no. 4, ill.1930 Buffalo
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, Exhibition Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Opening of the Albright Art Gallery, November–December 1930, no. 11.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 12, (dated c. 1880–85), as Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.1935 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Opening Exhibition (Modern French Painting), 1935, no. 2, lent by Albright Art Gallery.1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 14, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.1950 Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 111 (supplement), c. 1878-1880, lent by Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo.1961 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 49.1965b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 38, ill., as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, 1882-85, lent by The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.1968 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May 19–July 21, 1968, ill., p. 14.1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 20, ill.2000 Dortmund
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Cézanne, Manet, Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst, May 30–July 30, 2000, no. 7, ill., as Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Buffan.2005–06 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 98, ill., p. 206 (dated c. 1878–79), as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 19, ill.2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.Published References
Hekking 1927
Hekking, William M. "April at the Albright Art Gallery." Buffalo Arts Journal IX, no. 4 (April 1927), pp. 220–21, detail.Buffalo Fine Arts Academy 1930
"Academy Notes." Buffalo Fine Arts Academy XXI, no. 1 (May 1930), p. 12, ill.Buffalo Fine Arts Academy 1931
Blue Book. 1931, pp. 56, 62.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 417, ill. vol. II, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.Menadue 1940
Menadue, Virginia Ford. Buffalo Courier-Express, October 13, 1940, ill.Ritchie 1949
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1949, p. 66, no. 30, ill.Reff 1960b
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 117.Hoog 1989
Hoog, Michel. Cézanne "Puissant et solitaire". Paris: Gallimard, 1989, ill. center pages 50–51.Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 2.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 83.Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 125, fig. 101, with photograph of the motif, fig. 100, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1882–85.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. 380, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.Brettell 2005
Brettell, Richard. "Pioneering Modern Painting: the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1231 (October 2005), p. 684, fig. 42, as The pool at the Jas de Bouffan, c. 1878-79.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 41, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 40, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 164; vol. 2, p. 117, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 91, fig. 25b, with color photo of motif, fig. 25a, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1881–82.Salmon 2018
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 397.Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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. 287 p. 299 (fig. 288 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1960 p. 299).Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 116, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Site identified by Dr. François Corsy.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated October 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1878 (FWN 116)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=376 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
