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 153
Rochers à l'Estaque
1879–82
Alternate titles: Cliffs in l'Estaque; L'Estaque et la Rade de Marseille; L'Estaque und die Reede von Marseille; Les Rochers de l'Estaque; Paysage; Rocce all'Estaque; Rocks at L'Estaque
Rewald (442): 1879–82; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (404): 1882–85; Cooper: between May 1883 and January 1884; Gowing: probably 1883 (Burlington); Machotka et al: c.1883
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 35 13/16 in. (73 x 91 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, Germany, Jubiläumsausstellung zur Feier des hundertjährigen Bestehens der Galerie Commeter, July–August 1921, no. 9, as L'Estaque und die Reede von Marseille.
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée d'Art de São Paulo, October 10, 1953–January 1954, no. 4? Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, January 14–February 28, 1954; Utrecht Centraal Museum, March 6–May 2, 1954; Berner Kunstmusuem, Bern, Switzerland, May 8–June 7, 1954; Tate Gallery, London, June 19–August 15, 1954; Palazzo reale, Milan, November 1954–February 1955.
Utrecht Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Meesterwerken uit São Paulo, March 6–May 2, 1954, no number.
Tate Gallery, London, Masterpieces from the São Paulo Museum of Art, June 19–August 15, 1954, no number.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Dipinti del Museo d'arte di San Paolo del Brasile, November 1954–February 1955, no number.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from the São Paulo Museum of Art, March 21–June 2, 1957, no number.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 20, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 22, ill.
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, L'Estaque, naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910, June 25–September 25, 1994, no. 13, ill. dated 1882-85.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 55, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 22, ill., as Rochers à l'Estaque. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Grand Palais, Paris, Méditerranée: de Courbet à Matisse, September 19, 2000–January 15, 2001, no. 14, ill. 14, as Rochers à l'Estaque, 1882.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, October 9, 2002–March 30, 2003, no. 42, ill., as Rocce all'Estaque, 1882, lent by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 44, ill., (dated c. 1882). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, November 27, 2010–May 1, 2011, no. 26, ill. p. 32.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 10, ill.
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Arte da França: de Delacroix a Cézanne, July 17–November 8, 2015.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 25, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 78, ill. 1882–85. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 121.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 93, pl. p. 92, as Les Rochers de l'Estaque.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 150.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 153, pl. [28] hors texte, as Les Rochers de l'Estaque.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 404, ill. vol. II, as Rochers à l'Estaque.
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, p. 229, no. CXXXI.
Bardi, P.M. and Hélène Adhémar. Art et Style. 30, L'art français au Musée d'art de Sao-Paulo. Paris, 1st trimester 1954, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as Rochers à l'Estaque, 1882-85.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, pp. 31–32.
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, p. 256.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 50, ill. in color.
Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, p. 11, fig. 3.
Prati, Xavier, ed. L'Estaque au temps des peintres, 1870–1914. Marseille: Association College-quartier, 1985, p. 54, ill., with photograph of motif.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, pl. 20.
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 129, fig. 34.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 89, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 113.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 53, fig. 28, with photograph of motif, p. 52, fig. 27, as Rochers à l'Estaque, dated c. 1883.
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. 442, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers à l'Estaque.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne: Words and Deeds." Translated by Rosalind Krauss. October 84 (Spring 1998), p. 36, ill., as Rocks at L'Estaque.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 27, ill., with photo of motif (1978), p. 26, as Rochers à l'Estaque.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 176, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 174; vol. 2, p. 122, as Rochers à l'Estaque.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Cézanne and Hartley: On Sacred Ground." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 6.12, as Rochers à l'Estaque, dated circa 1882.
Nelson, B.R. "The portrayal of reflective life in action in painting: discovery of the inner life of sensory perception in watercolours by Turner and oil paintings by Cézanne." In Forms of Enlightenment in Art. Cambridge, England: Open Angle Books, 2010, pp. 174-177, as Rocks at L'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 174, ill.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 282, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 103, fig. 32b, with color photo of motif, p. 102, fig. 32a, as Rochers à l'Estaque.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 13.
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 1, Paintings. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 126, no. 227, ill., as Cliffs in l'Estaque, 1882-85.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 116 (discussion pp. 101–102), as Rochers à l'Estaque, dated 1883 (with photo of the motif, fig. 117).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 156, ill. with photo of motif.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 1, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as Rocks at L'Estaque, dated 1883–85, catalogue notes by Annemarie Iker.
Causey, Faya. "Tectonic Cezanne." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 8 with photo of the motif by the author, fig. 7, 1882–85.
Record last updated August 19, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers à l'Estaque, 1879–82 (FWN 153)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=433 (accessed on October 10, 2024).
