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)
FWN 192
Les Toits de l'Estaque
1883–85
Alternate titles: L'Estaque; Landscape; Landschaft; Mer de l'Estaque
Rewald (519): 1883–85; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (405): 1882–85; Gowing: early summer 1885
Oil on canvas
23 13/16 x 27 3/4 in. (60.6 x 70.5 cm)
Private collection, Qatar
Provenance
Joe L. Allbritton, Washington, D.C.
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings by Contemporary French Artists, January 5–29, 1916, no. 13, as L'Estaque.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Foreign and American Painters, November 27–December 16, 1916, no. 6, as Landscape.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 6, ill., as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
Union League Club, New York, Modern Pictures Representing Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist Painters, 1924, no. 9.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 16, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930, no. 20, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 15, ill. lent by Lewisohn.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 349, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters, November 15–December 18, 1948, no. 2, ill. lent by Lewisohn.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 11.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 46, ill. lent by Lewisohn. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 22, pl. 15.
Published References
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 145, as Landschaft.
Réau, Louis. L'Art français aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1926, p. 147 (mentioned).
Mauny, Jacques. "Cézanne: The Old Master." Drawing and Design 2, no. 1 (January 1927), p. 20, ill.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 62, as Landschaft.
Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculpture. New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, p. 179, ill.
Térey, Edith von. "Die Sammlung Adolph Lewisohn, New York." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 11 (1929), ill. p. 423.
Bourgeois, Stephan, and Waldemar-George. "L'art français du XIXe et du XXe siècles à la collection Adolphe et Samuel Lewisohn." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, nos. 28–29 (1932), ill. between pp. 304 and 305.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 405, ill. vol. II, as Mer de l'Estaque.
Lewisohn, Sam A. Painters and Personality: A Collector's View of Modern Art. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937, p. 38, pl. 8.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 108.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 640, ill. p. 12.
The Frances and John L. Loeb Collection. London: [privately published], 1982, no. 16, ill.
Tomkins, Calvin. "Profiles: WIlliam S. Rubin." The New Yorker (November 4, 1985), pp. 70–71.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 301, fig. 152.
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. 519, ill. vol. 2, as Les Toits de l'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 199, ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 135 (discussion p. 115), as Les Toits de l'Estaque (with diagram identifying individual elements of the motif, fig. 136).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 191, ill. with a diagram identifying the individual buildings.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 120, ill., as L'Estaque, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 98.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Toits de l'Estaque, 1883–85 (FWN 192)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=508 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
