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Catalogue entry

FWN 155
La Baie de l'Estaque
1879–83
Alternate titles: L'Estaque; La Montagne de l'Estaque; The Bay; The Bay of L'Estaque
Rewald (444): 1879–83; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (489): 1886–90; Ratcliffe: possibly 1888; Machotka et al: 1881–82
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 11/16 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)
lower left: traces of a blue-green signature
Vollard archives: photo no. [193] and 265, Annotated: Fayet
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr.) (1963-116-21)

Keywords

Provenance
Amédée Schuffenecker, Paris
Gustave Fayet, Paris (June 1904)
Galerie E. Druet, Paris (by 1910)
Charles Pacquement, Paris (by 1924);
Pacquement Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Dec. 12, 1932, no. 13, ill.
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (S.A. Denio Collection)
Julius Weitzner, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Tyson, Jr. (Dec. 30, 1943);
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1963)
Exhibition History
1910–11 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 8, as L'Estaque, lent by Galeries Druet.
1924b Paris
Hôtel de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, Paris, Première exposition de collectionneurs au profit de la Société des amis de Luxembourg, March 10–April 10, 1924, no. 183, as L'Estaque, lent by Pacquement.
1926a Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2872, as L'Estaque, lent by Pacquement.
1929b Paris
Galerie Bernier, Paris, Mers et plages de Delacroix à nos jours, May 25–June 13, 1929, no. 14.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 40, lent by Tyson.
1947 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 26.
1983 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 9, ill.
2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 212, p. 530, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Published References
Hind 1911
Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 38, as The Bay, Druet collection.
Waldemar-George 1924
Waldemar-George. "Première exposition de collectionneurs." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 52, as L'Estaque.
Beaux-arts 1933
"Du monde entier: Hors d'Europe." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 15 (April 14, 1933), p. 7, ill., as L'Estaque.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 489, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne de l'Estaque.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 110.
Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 106, pl. XXVII (with photograph of the motif).
Vaudoyer 1947
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 86, ill.
Jedlicka 1948
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 33, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Nicolson 1951
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Rewald 1964
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 59, no. 280 (Winter 1964), p. 77, ill.
Butler 1984
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 16.
Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 124, fig. 99, with photograph of the motif, fig. 98, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
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. 444, ill. vol. 2, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Cendo 2005
Cendo, Nicolas. "A Dimension Known as Painting, L'Estaque, 1870–1910." In Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920). Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, fig. 1, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 17, ill., with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 16, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Goldin 2010
Goldin, Marco. "Dal viaggio verso Sud." In Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, 2010. Treviso: Linea d'Ombra, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, ill.
Robins 2010
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Blanc 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 154, ill.
Hale 2014
Hale, Charlotte. "A Template for Experimentation." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, fig. 24, as The Bay of L'Estaque.
Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 94, fig. 28a, with color photo of motif, fig. 28b, as La Baie de l'Estaque, dated 1881–82.
Guibourgé et al 2015
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, ill. pp. 91 (detail), 115.
Nagaï 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 134, ill.
Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 88 (discussion p. 79), as La Baie de l'Estaque, with contemporary photo of motif, fig. 89.
Blanc 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 145, ill.
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, p. 81, fig. 52, as The Bay of L'Estaque, dated 1883–85.
Clark 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 49.
La Baie de l'Estaque, 1879–83 (FWN 155). IR reflectogram assembly of portrait of Madame Cézanne painted underneath the Baie of L'Estaque
IR reflectogram assembly of portrait of Madame Cézanne painted underneath the Baie of L'Estaque
Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Conservation Departmen
La Baie de l'Estaque, 1879–83 (FWN 155). Site identified by Erle Loran.
Site identified by Erle Loran.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated June 8, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Baie de l'Estaque, 1879–83 (FWN 155)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=435 (accessed on April 19, 2024).