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 223
Gardanne (l'après-midi)
1885–86
Alternate titles: Avignon; Blick auf Gardanne; Gardanne; Gardanne ('Les trois moulins'); Gardanne (vue verticale); Le Village de Gardanne; Paysage de l'Estaque; The Village of Gardanne; Village of Gardanne
Rewald (571): c.1886; Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi (431): 1885–86; Rivière: 1886; Cooper: probably 1886
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 13/16 in. (92.1 x 73.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3877, huile; tout un petit village avec des maison[s] rouge[s] et des arbre[s ][...], au loin on aperçoit la montagne, 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 16, as Avignon.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 15, ill., (dated c. 1885), as The Village of Gardanne, lent by Brooklyn Museum.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 21, ill., as The Village of Gardanne, lent by Brooklyn Museum.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1937.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 21, ill. lent by Brooklyn Museum.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 6, ill. lent by Brooklyn.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 31, ill. lent by Brooklyn Museum.
Los Angeles County Fair, Los Angeles, Masterpieces of Art from 1790 to 1950, 1950, no number, ill.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as Gardanne, lent by Brooklyn.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 24, ill.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 10, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 31, ill.
Hôtel de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France, Peintres de la couleur en Provence 1875-1920, January 28–April 28, 1995, pp. 336-337, ill., as Le Village de Gardanne. Traveled to: Musée du Luxembourg, Patis, France, May 15–August 15, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 115, ill. shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 29, ill., as Gardanne (l'après-midi), 1885-86, lent by Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 90, ill., as Gardanne (l'après-midi). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 31, ill., p. 174, as Gardanne (l'après-midi). Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 52, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 27, ill. p. 57, as Gardanne (l'après-midi), lent by Brooklyn Museum.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 78, ill., as Le Village de Gardanne, 1885–86, (92.1 x 74.6 cm). Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 56, p. 230, as Gardanne (l'après-midi).
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 38, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 114, ill.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 45, ill., as Le Village de Gardanne.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 60, ill.
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950, February 22–May 21, 2017, no. 7, ill., as The Village of Gardanne. Traveled to: Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, November 3, 2017–January 28, 2018; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, June 15–September 9, 2018; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, October 5, 2018–January 6, 2019.
Published References
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "La curiosité." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 24 (December 15, 1921), p. 633, ill. p. 632, as Paysage de l'Estaque.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 431, ill. vol. II, as Gardanne.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 54 (with photograph of motif).
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Gardanne.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 104.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 56 (with photograph of motif).
Frost, Rosamund. Contemporary Art: The March of Art from Cézanne until Now. New York: Crown, 1942, p. 46, ill.
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 9, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 155, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 40, as Gardanne ('Les trois moulins'), 1885-86.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XV, listed p. 180 (with a photograph of Gardanne, 1947).
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 72 (with photograph of motif).
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 13, as Blick auf Gardanne, c. 1885.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 13.
Hertha Wegener. "French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum." Bulletin of the Brooklyn Museum (Fall 1954), pp. 14, 23, fig. 6.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 149.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 22.
Lloyd, Christopher. "Reflections on La Roche-Guyon and the Impressionists." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 105, periode 6 (January 1985), pp. 42-43, fig. 14, as Le Village de Gardanne, c. 1885.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 110, fig. 1.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 97, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 19, c. 1885-86.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 125.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 69, fig.37, with photograph of motif, p. 68, fig. 36, as Gardanne (l'après-midi), dated 1885–86.
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. 571, ill. vol. 2, as Gardanne (l'après-midi).
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 58, fig. 47, as Gardanne.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 117, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 59, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 58, as Gardanne (vue verticale).
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 230, pl. 56, as Gardanne, dated 1885–86.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, ill., p. 230, pl. 56, as Gardanne, dated 1885–86.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 124–25, as Gardanne (l'après-midi), with old postcard view of Gardanne.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 172, fig. 114.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 240, ill.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 50.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 114, fig. 36a, with color photo of motif, fig. 36b, as Gardanne (l'après-midi).
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, p. 97, fig. 73 p. 98, as The Village of Gardanne, 1885-86.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 161, fig. 4, as The Village of Gardanne.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 52.
Record last updated July 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Gardanne (l'après-midi), 1885–86 (FWN 223)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=558 (accessed on April 29, 2025).
