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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Fabre, Aix-en-Provence
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Jan. 18, 1906)
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Apr. 4, 1908)
Knoedler Galleries, Paris and New York (Nov. 1915)
Stephan Bourgeois Gallery, New York (1918)
Adolph Lewisohn, New York;
Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York;
Museum of Modern Art, New York (Lewisohn Bequest) (1956)
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, New York (May 18, 1972);
Loeb Collection, Christie's, New York, May 12, 1997, no. 117, ill.
Joe L. Allbritton, Washington, D.C.
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
1916c New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings by Contemporary French Artists, January 5–29, 1916, no. 13, as L'Estaque.
1916g New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Foreign and American Painters, November 27–December 16, 1916, no. 6, as Landscape.
1919 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919.
1921c New York
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.
1924 New York
Union League Club, New York, Modern Pictures Representing Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist Painters, 1924, no. 9.
1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 16, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
1930c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930, no. 20, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
1937 San Francisco
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.
1940f New York
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 349, as L'Estaque, lent by Lewisohn.
1948c New York
Paul Rosenberg, New York, 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters, November 15–December 18, 1948, no. 2, ill. lent by Lewisohn.
1951c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 11.
1952 Chicago and traveling
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.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 22, pl. 15.
Published References
Friedländer 1922
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 145, as Landschaft.
Réau 1926
Réau, Louis. L'Art français aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1926, p. 147 (mentioned).
Mauny 1927
Mauny, Jacques. "Cézanne: The Old Master." Drawing and Design 2, no. 1 (January 1927), p. 20, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 62, as Landschaft.
Bourgeois 1928
Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculpture. New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, p. 179, ill.
Térey 1929
Térey, Edith von. "Die Sammlung Adolph Lewisohn, New York." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 11 (1929), ill. p. 423.
Lewisohn 1931
Lewisohn, Sam A. "Drama in Painting." Creative Art 9 (September 1931), p. 191, ill.
Bourgeois and Waldemar-George 1932
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.
Cheney 1934
Cheney, Sheldon. Expressionism in Art. New York: Liveright, 1934, p. 111, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 405, ill. vol. II, as Mer de l'Estaque.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 51.
Lewisohn 1937
Lewisohn, Sam A. Painters and Personality: A Collector's View of Modern Art. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937, p. 38, pl. 8.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 108.
Cheney 1947
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1947, p. 207, ill.
Rilke 1952
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Briefe über Cézanne. Wiesbaden: Insel, 1952, pl. 8.
Lynes 1973
Lynes, Russell. Good Old Modern. New York: Atheneum, 1973, p. 315.
Barr 1977
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.
Loeb Collection 1982
The Frances and John L. Loeb Collection. London: [privately published], 1982, no. 16, ill.
Tomkins 1985
Tomkins, Calvin. "Profiles: WIlliam S. Rubin." The New Yorker (November 4, 1985), pp. 70–71.
Rewald 1989
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 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. 519, ill. vol. 2, as Les Toits de l'Estaque.
Blanc 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 199, ill.
Blanc 2019
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 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 191, ill. with a diagram identifying the individual buildings.
Dauberville 2020
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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Record last updated April 8, 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 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 March 28, 2024).