The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Catalogue entry
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
Georges Dumesnil, Aix-en-Provence (Gift of the artist, 1897)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 10, 1910)
Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar (end of January 1910)
Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Aug. 14, 1919)
Galerie Commeter, Hamburg (Dec. 17, 1919)
Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris
Kichizaemon Kishimoto, Osaka
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Exhibition History
1921 Hamburg
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.1953–54 Paris and traveling
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 1955.1954 Utrecht
Utrecht Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Meesterwerken uit São Paulo, March 6–May 2, 1954, no number.1954b London
Tate Gallery, London, Masterpieces from the São Paulo Museum of Art, June 19–August 15, 1954, no number.1954–55 Milan
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Dipinti del Museo d'arte di San Paolo del Brasile, November 1954–February 1955, no number.1957c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from the São Paulo Museum of Art, March 21–June 2, 1957, no number.1986 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1986.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 22, ill.1994 Marseille
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, L'Estaque, naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910, June 25–September 25, 1994, no. 13, ill. dated 1882-85.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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, 2000.2000–2001 Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Méditerranée: de Courbet à Matisse, September 19, 2000–January 15, 2001, no. 14, ill. 14, as Rochers à l'Estaque, 1882.2002–03 Treviso
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.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2010–11 Genoa
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, November 27, 2010–May 1, 2011, no. 26, ill. p. 32.2013–14 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 10, ill.2015 Sao Paulo
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Arte da França: de Delacroix a Cézanne, July 17–November 8, 2015.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 25, ill.2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 78, ill. 1882–85. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.Published References
Meier-Graefe 1918a
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 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 93, pl. p. 92, as Les Rochers de l'Estaque.Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 150.Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 40, as Paysage.Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 153, pl. [28] hors texte, as Les Rochers de l'Estaque.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 404, ill. vol. II, as Rochers à l'Estaque.Cézanne 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, p. 229, no. CXXXI.Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, p. 85.Art et Style 1954
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.Bardi 1957
Bardi, Pietro Maria. Il Museo di São Paulo. Milan: Edizioni del Milione, 1957, pl. 55.Rewald 1959a
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.Taillandier 1961
Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 74.Alauzen 1962
Alauzen, André M. La Peinture en Provence. Marseille: La Savoisienne, 1962, pl. 50.Guerry 1966
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 23.Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 20.Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 55.Cézanne 1976
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, p. 256.Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 50, ill. in color.Clark 1985
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 1985
Prati, Xavier, ed. L'Estaque au temps des peintres, 1870–1914. Marseille: Association College-quartier, 1985, p. 54, ill., with photograph of motif.Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, pl. 20.Arnold 1986b
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 129, fig. 34.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 128, ill.Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 106, ill.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 89, ill.Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 61, ill.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. 113.Machotka 1996
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 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. 442, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers à l'Estaque.Bois 1998
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 2005
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 2005b
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 2008
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 2009
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 2010
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 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 174, ill.Cézanne 2013
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 2014
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 2017
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 13.National Museum of Western Art 2018a
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 2019
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 (with photo of the motif, fig. 117).Blanc 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 156, ill. with photo of motif.Elderfield et al 2020
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 2021
Causey, Faya. "Tectonic Cezanne." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.Smith 2023
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.
Photo: Paul Smith
Motif for no. 153.
Photo courtesy John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Site identified by Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated March 14, 2023. 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 April 23, 2024).
