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)
FWN 123
Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque
1878–79
Alternate titles: At the Bottom of the Ravine; Au fond du ravin; Au fond du ravin (l'Estaque) or Paysage rocheux; L'Estaque; Landschaft; Paysage; Paysage rocheux
Rewald (393): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: Gardanne, 1885; Venturi (400): 1882–85; Rivière: c.1880–85; Cooper: 1880
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 21 1/4 in. (73 x 54 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 178, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Gardanne, 1885 ; in another hand: Mirbeau
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 33, as L'Estaque, lent by O. Mirbeau.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 12, as Paysage rocheux.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 36, as Landschaft, 1885, lent by Private collection.
Kunstverein, Solothurn, Switzerland, Hundert Jahre Malerei aus Solothurne Privatbesitz, September 23–November 26, 1950, no. 56, as Au fond du ravin.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 9, ill.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XLVI.
Pach, Walter. "The Point of View of the 'Moderns.'" Century Magazine 87, no. 6 (April 1914), p. 867, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 115.
Adès, Albert. "Mirbeau, critique d'art et collectionneur." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 2, no. 2 (February 1919), p. 54, as Paysage rocheux.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 142.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 146.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 209, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXVII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 400, ill. vol. II, as Au fond du ravin.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 45, as Au fond du ravin.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 465, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 59; p. 82, no. 4, p. 91.
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich. Essays on Art, 1915–33. New York: G. Wittenborn, 1971, pp. 19–30, fig. 5.
Hattis, Phyllis. "Zu den Bildern in der 'Schanzmühle.'" Du 38, no. 8 (August 1978), p. 49, ill.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 123, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 186, fig. 2.
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. 393, ill. vol. 2, as Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 171; vol. 2, p. 120, as Au fond du ravin.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 70 (discussion p. 65), as Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 125, ill., as Au fond du ravin (l'Estaque) or Paysage rocheux, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 83, and 1914 exhibition, p.98.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 2, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as At the Bottom of the Ravine, dated c. 1882, catalogue note4s by Annemarie Iker.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 54.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde (as Seen from Paris)." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Notes
Rewald (1996, p. 262) noted that the motif and coloration of this canvas was similar to Renoir's Crags at L'Estaque (1882), although one might also find a parallel with Le Viaduc à l'Estaque, 1882 (156), which was painted in the same year.
Auguste Renoir, Crags at L'Estaque, 1882. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque, 1878–79 (FWN 123)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=389 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
