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 294
La Maison lézardée
1892–94
Alternate titles: Das geborstene Haus; Das Haus mit den rissigen Wänden; House with a broken wall; La maison lézardée; La maison perdue or La maison lézardée; Landschaft; The cracked house; The House with the Cracked Walls
Rewald (760): 1892–94; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (657): 1892–94; Reff: c.1890 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 23 13/16 in. (80 x 60.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4141, La maison fendue -- une maison sur la montagne, 80 x 64 cm (350 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899, no. 3, as La Maison lézardée.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 4, as Landschaft, lent by Vollard.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Wildenstein Jubilee Loan Exhibition, 1901–1951: Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections, November 8–December 15, 1951, no. 51, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no number, lent by Haupt.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 21, as House with a broken wall, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, April 25–May 24, 1959, listed p. 28, ill., as The cracked house, 1892-1894, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 22. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n., pp. 78–79, ill., as The House with the Cracked Walls. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
Published References
Fagus, Félicien. "Quarante Tableaux de Cézanne." La Revue Blanche, no. 20 (December 15, 1899), p. 628, mentioned.
Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned, as Das geborstene Haus.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 129.
"Confiscation de tableaux." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), p. 750, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 158.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed as La Maison lézardée et le chemin rural à Auvers.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 44, as Das geborstene Haus, 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXVI.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 59, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 657, ill. vol. II, as La maison lézardée.
Schenck, Edgar. "Girl with Her Doll." Bulletin of the Honolulu Academy of Arts 5, no. 1 (March 1937), fig. 5.
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. 56.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 57, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 42, as La Maison lézardée.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 23, as Das Haus mit den rissigen Wänden, 1892-94.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 23.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 11, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 150.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 34, with comments.
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 12, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, ill.
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 133, fig. 42.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 201, 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. 760, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison lézardée.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 135, fig. 3.37, as La Maison lézardée.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 197, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. 29, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Review of Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1290 (September 2010), p. 619 mentioned, as The House with the Cracked Walls.
Bandera, Maria Cristina. "Cézanne, Morandi e Carrà." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 109, fig. 8.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, fig. 44.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 556, ill. listed as cat. no. 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in "1912a Berlin" exhibition.
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 1, Paintings. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 125, no. 224, ill., as The House with the Cracked Walls.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 73, ill., as La maison perdue or La maison lézardée.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 95.
Record last updated July 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison lézardée, 1892–94 (FWN 294)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=737 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
