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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)
Catalogue entry
Venturi-Rewald Archive, NGA Library
FWN 171-TA
Fortifications à la Glacière
c.1881
Alternate titles: Fortifications à la Glaciêre; Gennevilliers; Gennevilliers or les Fortifications à la Glacière; Paysage de Gennevilliers
Rewald (494): c.1881; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (322): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Provenance
Camille Pissarro, Paris
Octave Mirbeau, Paris
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris;
Josse Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Whereabouts unknown (presumed destroyed during WWII)
Exhibition History
1912 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, October 5–December 31, 1912, no. 6, as Gennevilliers, lent by M. Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, not for sale.1934 Glasgow
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 13.1934b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 9, as Gennevilliers, c. 1890, lent by Josse.Published References
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 72.Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 72.Bernheim-Jeune 1919
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 18.Larguier 1925
Larguier, Léo. Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne. Paris: L'Edition, 1925, p. 64, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 322, ill. vol. II, as Fortifications à la Glaciêre.Commandement en chef français 1947
Commandement en chef français en Allemagne. Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, tome II, tableaux - tapisseries - sculpture (List of Property removed from France during the war 1939-1945, Volume 2, paintings, tapestries and sculpture). G. Glasser, directeur des réparations et restitutions. Berlin, 1947, p. 250, no. 5555, 34.572 , ill. p. 275 p, as Paysage de Gennevilliers, 54 x 65, Jean Bernheim Jeune.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. 494, ill. vol. 2, as Fortifications à la Glacière.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 152bis, ill., as Gennevilliers or les Fortifications à la Glacière, photograph of work hanging in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107, avenue Henri Martin, p. 7.Notes
Venturi (1936) described the colors in the painting as: "Premier plan vert montrant par endroits la toile nue grise-rose. Maisons grises avec toits bruns ou rouges. A gauche chemin et fer. Ciel bleu nuancé de blanc."
Record last updated February 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fortifications à la Glacière, c.1881 (FWN 171-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=483 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
