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Catalogue entry
163
La Route tournante (rue des Roches au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise)
c. 1881
Alternate titles: Environs d'Aix; Environs d'Aix-en-Provence; Environs of Aix; La Route tournante; La Route tournante au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise; Turn in the Road; Twisting Road
Rewald: (490) c.1881; Venturi: (329) 1879–82; Venturi revised: c.1881; Cooper: spring 1881; Gowing: c.1881 (Edinburgh); Machotka et al: circa 1881
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Keywords
- Locales: Northern France
- Motifs: Landscape motifs (natural)
- Motifs: Landscape motifs (man-made)
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Provenance
Exhibition History
1928d New York:
Wildenstein Galleries, N.Y, Paul Cézanne, no. 14, Environs d'Aix, lent by Spaulding.
1929 Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Mass.
1929 Cambridge, Mass.:
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, no. 5, pl. XXIII, Environs d'Aix-en-Provence, lent by John T. Spaulding.
1931–32 Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Mass.
1934 Chicago:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Ill, A Century of Progress, no. 292, Environs of Aix, lent by John T. Spaulding.
1948 Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Mass, The John T. Spaulding Collection, no. 8, pl. 2.
1952 Chicago and traveling:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, no. 42, ill, lent by Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling:
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Paintings by Cézanne, no. 26, pl. III, lent by MFA, Boston.
1959e New York:
Wildenstein Galleries, N.Y, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, no. 19, ill, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling:
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, no. 11.
1973 Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Mass, Impressionism
1974 Tokyo and traveling:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, no. 29.
1984–85 Los Angeles and traveling:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, no. 72.
1993 Tübingen:
Kunsthalle, Cézanne Gemälde, no. 27, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling:
Réunion des musées nationaux / musée d'Orsay, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paris, Cézanne, no. 76, ill, shown in Philadelphia only.
2005–06 New York and traveling:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, no. 59, ill, p. 155, La Route tournante.
2009 Philadelphia:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pa, Cézanne and Beyond, pl. 206, p. 524, La Route tournante.
2012–13 Budapest:
Museum of Fine Arts, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, no. 110, ill.
Published References
Bernard 1891:
"Paul Cézanne," (described), seen at Tanguy's.
Venturi 1936b:
Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre, no. 329, ill. vol. II, La Route tournante.
Novotny 1937:
Cézanne, pl. 33.
Vollard 1937:
Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux, pl. 30.
Goldwater 1938:
"Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections," p. 149, ill.
Lhote 1939:
Traité du paysage, pl. 44 (with commentary).
Cogniat 1939a:
Cézanne, pl. 36.
Wilenski 1940:
Modern French Painters, fig. 15A.
Jewell 1944a:
Paul Cézanne, p. 43, ill.
Dame 1948:
"Spaulding Collection Willed to Boston Museum," p. 12, ill.
Edgell 1949:
French Painters in the Museum of Fine Arts: Corot to Utrillo, p. 51, ill.
Raynal 1954:
Cézanne, p. 55, ill.
Cooper 1954a:
"Two Cézanne Exhibitions," pp. 378–79.
Erpel 1958:
Paul Cézanne, p. 21, ill.
Lhote 1958:
Traités du paysage et de la figure, fig. 43 (with commentary).
Andersen 1967a:
"Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]," p. 139, note 22.
Bodelsen 1968b:
"Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the Light of Some Unpublished 'Procès-Verbaux'," p. 345.
Ikegami 1969:
Cézanne, pl. 18.
Brion 1974:
Cézanne, p. 39.
Venturi 1978:
Cézanne, p. 82, ill.
Pickvance and Takumi 1986:
Cézanne, p. 100, ill, b/w.
Kendall 1988:
Cézanne: By Himself, p. 126, ill.
Distel 1989:
Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands, p. 67, ill.
Naubert-Riser 1992:
Cézanne, p. 27.
Kostenevich 1995:
Hidden Treasures Revealed, p. 187, fig. 1.
Rewald 1996:
The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., no. 490, ill. vol. 2, La Route tournante.
Lewis 2000:
Cézanne, p. 210, pl. 127.
Tanaka 2001:
"Cézanne and 'Japonisme'," p. 204, fig. 4, Twisting Road.
Schmidt 2004a:
Cézannes Lehre, fig. 9.
Mothe et al. 2006:
Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise, p. 49, ill, with old postcard view of motif (detail), p. 48, identified as rue des Roches.
Machotka 2008:
Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols., vol. 1, fig. 162; vol. 2, p. 117, La Route tournante.
Chevrier 2009:
"Jeff Wall: Within the View(ing), or The Spirit of Place," p. 524, pl. 206, Turn in the Road.
Taylor 2009:
"Learning from 'Papa Cézanne': Arshile Gorky and the (Self-) Invention of the Modern Artist," p. 419, ill. p. 524, pl. 206, Turn in the Road.
Chiappini 2011:
"Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione," p. 33, fig. 16.
Mothe 2011:
Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales, pp. 44–45, ill, La Route tournante au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, with old postcard general view of the hamlet.
Société Paul Cézanne 2011:
P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France, p. 73, ill, La Route tournante, dated 1881.
Coutagne 2011d:
Cézanne abstraction faite, p. 168, fig. 110.
Coutagne 2017:
"Chemin-Cezanne," p. 22, fig. 4.
Page citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Route tournante (rue des Roches au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise), c. 1881 (cat. no. 163)." The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=479 (accessed September 22, 2018).
Record last updated September 19, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Remarks
Alain Mothe has identified the site as rue des Roches au Valhermeil, hence the new title.