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Catalogue entry

FWN 137
Maison dans les arbres
c.1879
Alternate titles: Auvers: Maisons et mur de jardin bordant un chemin; La Maison du pendu (paysage); Maison à Auvers; Maison dans les arbres, Auvers-sur-Oise; Paysage
Rewald (402): c.1879; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Cézanne fils: Auvers 1878; Venturi (148): 1873–75; Rivière: 1873; Cooper: c.1879; Machotka et al: circa 1879
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3444, Maison à Auvers entre deux arbres nus, 92 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4056, La maison du pendu, 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 18, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Auvers 1878
Sotheby's, New York

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Mar. 27, 1911)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Mar. 27, 1911);
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection;
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, London, Nov. 30 1992, no. 14, ill.
Private collection
Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2023, no. 149
Exhibition History
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 12, as La Maison du pendu (paysage), lent by Vollard.
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 17, pl. VI, lent by Lecomte.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 29, lent by private collection, Paris.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 10, ill., as Maison dans les arbres.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed as Auvers: Maisons et mur de jardin bordant un chemin.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 148, ill. vol. II, as Maison à Auvers.
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. 402, ill. vol. 2, as Maison dans les arbres.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 41, ill. with photo of motif identified as 7, rue de Gré.
Mothe 2011
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 40–41, ill., as Maison dans les arbres, Auvers-sur-Oise, with present-day view of house at 7, rue du Gré.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 137, ill., as Paysage, Collection Pellerin.
Notes

Alain Mothe (2006) identified the address of the house and determined that the subject is the same cottage as in La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (77).

Record last updated May 18, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maison dans les arbres, c.1879 (FWN 137)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=397 (accessed on April 25, 2024).