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Catalogue entry

FWN 178
Les Toits de Paris
c.1882
Alternate titles: Blick auf die Dächer; Dächer; Die Dächer; Les Toits; Les toits, vue de Paris
Rewald (503): c.1882; Venturi revised: 1873–75; Venturi (175): 1874–77; Rivière: 1878; Ratcliffe: 1882
Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 1/5 in. (59.4 x 72.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3772, huile; les toits gris sur un ciel gris de toile, 60 x 73 cm (175 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 26, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Paris 1872
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Private collection) (Mar. 13, 1913);
Suse Paret-Cassirer, Berlin and Menton (1926)
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (Sept. 15, 1936)
Oskar Federer, Moravská Ostrava and Montreal (1937);
Private collection, Montreal
Victor Hélin, Châteauroux
Private collection
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Private collection
Exhibition History
1909b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 5, as Die Dächer, lent by Vollard.
1912b Paris
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no. 6, as Les Toits, [lent by Vollard].
1912b Munich
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 6, as Die Dächer, lent by Vollard.
1913b Berlin
Berlin, XXVI. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1913, no. 27, as Dächer, lent by Cassirer.
1913c Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, Sommer 1913, [Zehnte Ausstellung], July– c. September 26, 1913, as Blick auf die Dächer.
1921 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 6, as Die Dächer, lent by P. Cassirer private collection.
1925b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 3, as Die Dächer.
1938b Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 15, as Les toits, vue de Paris, lent by O. Federer.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 32. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
1977 Caracas
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Cinco Siglos de arte francés, May 24–June 24, 1977, no. 49, ill.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 2, ill., p. 18, as Les Toits de Paris, 1881-82, lent by Private collection.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 52, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 31, ill. Private collection. 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. 179.
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. 217.
Waldmann 1922
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 132, as Dächer.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, listed.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXI.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 175, ill. vol. II, as Les Toits.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 32.
Cogniat 1939b
Cogniat, Raymond. "Le 19 janvier 1839 naissait Cézanne … A la découverte des demeures de l'artiste, à Paris et en Provence." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 316 (January 20, 1939), ill. p. 1 (with photograph of motif).
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 13.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 30, as Les toits, vue de Paris, c. 1880.
Hofmann 1960
Hofmann, Werner. Das irdische Paradies. Munich: Prestel, 1960, pl. 36.
Sutton 1974
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 2 p. 99.
Adriani 1993
Adriani, Götz. Cézanne Gemälde. Cologne: DuMont, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, cited under no. 21.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, fig. 1.
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. 503, ill. vol. 2, as Les Toits de Paris.
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 37, ill., as Les Toits de Paris.
Coutagne 2011a
Coutagne, Denis. "Les 'Paris' de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, ill., p. 14 (detail), as Les Toits de Paris, dated 1881–82.
Marion 2013
Marion, Jean Luc. "La Peinture en vérité: La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 3.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013d
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 314, ill.
Nagaï 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 129, ill.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016f
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sommerausstellung: Juli bis Ende September 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 415, ill.
Nagaï 2022
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 38.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 6.
Record last updated March 17, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Toits de Paris, c.1882 (FWN 178)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=492 (accessed on March 28, 2024).