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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5143
Vollard archives: photo without no.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (January 1900)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Februrary 7, 1911)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (February 10, 1911)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (May 8, 1912)
Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden
Hugo Perls, Berlin, and Georg Caspari, Munich (confiscated by the French government in 1920)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Aug. 19, 1921)
Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris (Aug. 19, 1921)
Kuzaemon Wada, Kobe and Osaka, Japan (1930)
Wildenstein Galleries, New York (1951)
Enid Haupt, New York (1963)
Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg, Palm Springs (1983);
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2003)
Exhibition History
1899b Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899, no. 3, as La Maison lézardée.
1912a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 4, as Landschaft, lent by Vollard.
1951d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Wildenstein Jubilee Loan Exhibition, 1901–1951: Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections, November 8–December 15, 1951, no. 51, ill.
1955b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no number, lent by Haupt.
1958b New York
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.
1959 Washington, D.C.
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.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
1989 Philadelphia
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 1899
Fagus, Félicien. "Quarante Tableaux de Cézanne." La Revue Blanche, no. 20 (December 15, 1899), p. 628, mentioned.
Osborn 1912
Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned, as Das geborstene Haus.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 129.
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1920a
"Confiscation de tableaux." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), p. 750, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed as La Maison lézardée et le chemin rural à Auvers.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 44, as Das geborstene Haus, 1880.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXVI.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 59, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 657, ill. vol. II, as La maison lézardée.
Schenck 1937
Schenck, Edgar. "Girl with Her Doll." Bulletin of the Honolulu Academy of Arts 5, no. 1 (March 1937), fig. 5.
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. 56.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 95.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 57, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 140, listed p. 169.
Jedlicka 1948
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 42, as La Maison lézardée.
Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 106–07, ill.
Hofmann 1953
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 23, as Das Haus mit den rissigen Wänden, 1892-94.
Rousseau 1953
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 23.
Barr 1955
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 11, ill.
Rewald 1958
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Paysages. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1958, pl. 10.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 150.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 79.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 34, with comments.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 111.
Geist 1975
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 12, ill.
Reff 1977c
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 1986b
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 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 201, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 149, fig. 129.
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. 760, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison lézardée.
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. 135, fig. 3.37, as La Maison lézardée.
Feilchenfeldt 2005b
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 2009
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 2010
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 2013
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 2013b
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2016c
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.
National Museum of Western Art 2018a
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 2020
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 2022
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 April 20, 2024).