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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
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)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3431, Maisons etagées. Paysage du midi, 92 x 73 cm (100 frs)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (May 7, 1913)
Dr. Hans Wendland, Berlin and Paris (confiscated as enemy property);
Sequestre Wendland, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 24, 1922, no. 209, ill.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Exhibition History
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 16, as Avignon.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 15, ill., (dated c. 1885), as The Village of Gardanne, lent by Brooklyn Museum.1936 Toledo
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.1937 Portland
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1937.1937 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. 21, ill. lent by Brooklyn Museum.1947 Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 6, ill. lent by Brooklyn.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 31, ill. lent by Brooklyn Museum.1950a Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Fair, Los Angeles, Masterpieces of Art from 1790 to 1950, 1950, no number, ill.1950 Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as Gardanne, lent by Brooklyn.1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 24, ill.1961 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 10, ill.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 31, ill.1995 Marseille and traveling
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, 1995.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.1998–99 Sydney
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.2000 Vienna and traveling
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).2005–06 Marseille and traveling
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, 2006.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2008 Humlebæk
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.2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
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, 2009.2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 56, p. 230, as Gardanne (l'après-midi).2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 38, ill.2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 114, ill.2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 45, ill., as Le Village de Gardanne.2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 60, ill.2017 McNay
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
Tabarant 1921a
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.Klingsor 1923
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 28 (as L'Estaque).Mack 1935
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 29.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 431, ill. vol. II, as Gardanne.Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 54 (with photograph of motif).Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 42.Rewald 1937a
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 104.Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 56 (with photograph of motif).Frost 1942
Frost, Rosamund. Contemporary Art: The March of Art from Cézanne until Now. New York: Crown, 1942, p. 46, ill.Rewald 1944
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 9, ill. (with photograph of motif).Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 17, ill.Jewell 1944b
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 155, ill.Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 39.Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 40, as Gardanne ('Les trois moulins'), 1885-86.Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XV, listed p. 180 (with a photograph of Gardanne, 1947).Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 72 (with photograph of motif).Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 55.Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, frontispiece.Hofmann 1953
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 13, as Blick auf Gardanne, c. 1885.Rousseau 1953
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 13.Wegener 1954
Hertha Wegener. "French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum." Bulletin of the Brooklyn Museum (Fall 1954), pp. 14, 23, fig. 6.Rewald 1958
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Paysages. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1958, pl. 6.Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 19.Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 149.Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 59.Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 22.Lloyd 1985
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.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 115, fig. 95.Wattenmaker et al 1993
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 110, fig. 1.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 97, ill.Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 19, c. 1885-86.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 125.Machotka 1996
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 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. 571, ill. vol. 2, as Gardanne (l'après-midi).Smith 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 58, fig. 47, as Gardanne.Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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 2004
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 2005
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 2006
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.Elderfield 2009
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 2009a
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 2011
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 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 172, fig. 114.Cézanne 2013
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 2013b
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 2014
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 2015
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 52.
View of Gardanne
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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 25, 2024).
