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 236
Le grand pin
1887–89
Alternate titles: Die grosse Fichte; Die grosse Kiefer; Eiche im Sturm; Grande pino; Paysage; The Great Pine; The large pine
Rewald (601): 1887–89; Venturi revised: c.1887; Cézanne fils: 1887; Venturi (669): 1892–96; Vollard: 1887; Cooper: c.1889 (Edinburgh) and 1888–89 (Burlington); Gowing: possibly 1889
Oil on canvas
33 11/16 x 36 7/16 in. (85.5 x 92.5 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 271 and [195], Annotated: [271] ; by Cezanne's son: Mon [t]briand 93
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 20, as Le grand pin, lent by Galeries Druet.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, VIII. Ausstellung, March 1911, no. 1, as Die grosse Kiefer.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 18, as Die grosse Fichte, lent by Mendelssohn.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 32, ill., as Le grand pin, lent by Frau Mendelssohn, Berlin.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 100, ill. lent by São Paulo. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 45, pl. IX, as Le grand pin, c. 1889, lent by Museum of Art, São Paulo. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 27, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, Da Manet a Toulouse-Lautrec, July 4–September 27, 1987, no number, ill., pp. 131–34. Traveled to: Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, Italy, October 7–December 6, 1987; Villa Croce, Genova, Italy, December 17, 1987–February 21, 1988.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 59, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 153, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 30, ill., as Le grand pin. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 39, ill., as Grande pino, 1890-1896.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 65, ill., (dated c. 1889). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Arte da França: de Delacroix a Cézanne, July 17–November 8, 2015.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 12, ill.
Published References
Braun, Felix. "Salon Cassirer." National-Zeitung (Berlin), March 4,1911, No. 54, as Die grosse Kiefer.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 81, as Eiche im Sturm.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 138.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 204.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 18], as Paysage.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 669, ill. vol. II, as Le grand pin.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Bardi, P.M. and Hélène Adhémar. Art et Style. 30, L'art français au Musée d'art de Sao-Paulo. Paris, 1st trimester 1954, ill. in color (n.p.), as Le grand pin, 1892-96.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 13.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 87, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 35 (with comments).
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 117.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 142.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, pl. 27.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 184, ill. in color.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 25, ill.
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. 601, ill. vol. 2 and p. 53, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le grand pin.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 53, fig. 42, as The Great Pine.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 236, ill.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), pp. 626-27, fig. 52, as The large pine, c. 1889.
Bacou, Roseline. "Gustave Fayet Collectionneur." Cahiers de l'Association française pour la protection des archives privées II (2008), p. 236, as Le grand pin.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 230; vol. 2, p. 157, as Le grand pin.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 10.
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, pp. 204, 115, ill., 207n58.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen von Paul Cézanne, Ferdinand Hodler, Leopold Kalckreuth […]: März 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 263, ill.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le grand pin, 1887–89 (FWN 236)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=584 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
