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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 270
Pigeonnier de Bellevue
1889–90
Alternate titles: La Tour des pigeons à Montbriand; Pigeon Tower at Mont Briand; Pigeon Tower at Montbriand; Pigeonnier à Bellevue; The Pigeon House at Montbriand; The Pigeon Tower
Rewald (692): 1889–90; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (650): 1888–92; Rivière: 1886; Ratcliffe: possibly first half of 1889
Oil on canvas
25 3/16 x 31 1/2 in. (64 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4127, Paysage à l'huile un pigeonnier genre tour, 65 x 81 cm (300 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4080, Le Pigeonnier; huile, 65 x 81 (75,000)
Provenance
Maxime Conil, Montbriand
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Dec. 12, 1899)
Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland (Mar. 25, 1922);
The Cleveland Museum of Art (1936)
Exhibition History
1926 Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Inaugural Exhibition, January 29–February 28, 1926, no. 128, as The Pigeon House at Montbriand, lent by M/M R.M.C[oe].1926 Cleveland
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Fifty Years of French Art, October 29–November 29, 1926.1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 15, as La Tour des pigeons à Montbriand, lent by Coe.1929 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 23, ill., (dated c. 1894), as The Pigeon Tower, lent by M/M Ralph Coe.1934 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 298, as Pigeon Tower at Montbriand, lent by Coe.1936 Cleveland
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, June 26–October 4, 1936, no. 255, pl. 47.1936 Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 28, ill., as Pigeon Tower at Mont Briand, lent by Cleveland Museum.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. 26, ill. lent by Cleveland Museum.1940 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 3.1942 Montreal
Montreal Art Association, Montreal, Masterpieces of Art, February 5–March 8, 1942, no. 68.1945 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Thousand Years of Landscape: East and West, October 24–December 9, 1945, listed p. 3.1946 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1946, no. 41, ill.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 44, ill. lent by Cleveland.1948 Columbus
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Springtime of Impressionism, April 3–May 2, 1948, no. 5, ill.1953 Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, French Impressionists, March 24–April 19, 1953, no. 47, ill.1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 41, ill. lent by Cleveland.1976a Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Masterpieces: East and West from American Collections, 1976, no. 46, ill. Traveled to: National Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 1976.1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 46, ill.1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 121, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.2005–06 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. 36, ill., p. 177, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue. 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. 60, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 214, listed.Milliken 1926
Milliken, William Mathewson. "Fifty Years of French Art." Arts (December 1926), p. 336, ill.Loran 1930
Johnson, Erle Loran. "Cézanne's Country." The Arts 16, no. 8 (April 1930), p. 533, ill., with recent photograph of motif.Francis 1936
Francis, Henry S. "The Pigeon Tower at Montbriand by Paul Cézanne." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 3 (March 1936), p. 36, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 650, ill. vol. II, as Pigeonnier à Bellevue.Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 75.Wilenski 1940
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, fig. 48a.Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 78–79, pl. XV (with photograph of the motif).Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 88.Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 68.Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 83, ill.Milliken 1958
Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1958, p. 54, ill.Henning 1963
Henning, Edward B. "Cleveland Museum of Art: From Turner to Guston." Apollo 78 (December 1963), p. 486, ill.Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 150.Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 96, note 90.Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 63.Arrouye 1982a
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 86, ill.Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 187, ill.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 148, fig. 127.Chong 1993
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993, p. 33, ill.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 103, 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. 94.Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 77, fig. 45, with photograph of motif, p. 76, fig. 44, as Pigeonnier à Bellevue.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. 692, ill. vol. 2, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 130, fig. 3.31, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 71, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 70, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 238; vol. 2, p. 159, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.Machotka 2011a
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 193, fig. 108, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.Smith 2013
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 1.Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 129, fig. 43b, with color photo of motif, fig. 43, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.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. 70.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. 25, ill., as Pigeonnier de Bellevue, with photo of motif.
The pigeon tower and house at Bellevue.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
P-A Renoir, Pigeonnier de Bellevue, c. 1888–89, 54 x 65 cm, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Recent photograph of motif
Photo: Courtesy Didier Bonfort
The pigeon tower and house at Bellevue. Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome)
Photo: Lionello Venturi; © Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome
Site identified by Erle Loran.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pigeonnier de Bellevue, 1889–90 (FWN 270)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=670 (accessed on April 16, 2024).
