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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 258
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1888–90
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Paysage (Montagne Sainte-Victoire)
Rewald (631): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (662): 1890–94; Ratcliffe: possibly first half of 1889; Machotka et al: 1888–89
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3834, peinture; Ste. Victoire; à droite massif d'arbres, 65 x 81 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3336, Paysage. La Montagne Ste Victoire, 65 x 81 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 123 and 410, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885–90; and Sainte-Victoire 1885
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
George Embiricos, Lausanne
Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin;
Phillips, New York, May 7, 2001, no. 5, ill.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Paul Allen, Seattle (2001);
The Paul Allen Collection, Part I, Christie's, New York, November 9, 2022, no. 14, ill.
Exhibition History
1988 Geneva
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 6, ill.1991a London
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 19, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, on extended loan to 1998.1996–2000 Berlin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen, 1996–2000, on extended loan from 1998.2000–01 Berlin
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 14, ill.2006–07 Seattle
Experience Music Project, Seattle, Double Take: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006–January 2007, pp. 12–13, ill.2009–10 The Hague
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 35, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.2015–17 Portland and traveling
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 10, 2015–January 10, 2016, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 6–May 8, 2016; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, July 10–September 18, 2016; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, October 14, 2016–January 16, 2017; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, February 16–May 23, 2017.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 662, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 65.Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 100, pl. XXIII (with photograph of the motif, p. 101).Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 86.Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 66.Embiricos 1978
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), pp. 69–70, ill. p. 69.Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 177, ill.Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 209, ill. in color.Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 57, ill.Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 215, ill.Ely 1990
Ely, Bruno. "La plus haute sommité du département." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 147, fig. 107.Kendall 1991
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, pp. 17, 76–77, no. 19, ill.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 113, ill.Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 118-19, ill.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. 69.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. 631, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Smith 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 43, fig. 34, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.Ely 2006b
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 156, fig. 5, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (private collection).Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 235; vol. 2, p. 159, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Coutagne 2015
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 78.Bonfort 2016
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 30, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with photo of the motif.Société Paul Cezanne 2019
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 71 p. 86.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 113, ill., as Paysage (Montagne Sainte-Victoire).Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 56.
P.-A. Renoir, La Montagne Sainte-Vicroire, 1889. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Ct.
P.-A. Renoir, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1889. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Recent photograph of the motif
Photo: Courtesy Didier Bonfort
Record last updated November 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1888–90 (FWN 258)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=613 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
