The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 314
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1897
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (796): 1897; Venturi revised: c.1897; Venturi (763): 1897; Reff: 1897 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 in. (73 x 91.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 20, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Cézanne fils.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 22, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1897.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 35, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Cézanne fils.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 36, pl. XIV, lent by Cézanne fils.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 17, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Cézanne fils.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, Parallel exhibition: Bestandsaufnahme Gurlitt:
"Entartete Kunst" - beschlagnahmt und verkauft [Bern]
Der NS-Kunstraub und die Folgen [Bonn], November 2, 2017-April 4, 2018 (Bern); November 3, 2017-April 11, 2018 (Bonn), no. 24, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (shown in Bern).
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Gurlitt: eine Bilanz (Gurlitt: un Bilan; Gurlitt: Taking Stock), September 16, 2022–January 15, 2023, no no., mentioned on p. 7, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 763, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire .
Cogniat, Raymond. "Un siècle d'art français au Stedelijk Muséum d'Amsterdam." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 292 (August 5, 1938), ill. p. 3, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire .
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 154, listed.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Le Salon des Indépendants." Le Monde illustré (Paris) (March 25, 1939), n.p., as Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 80, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire , 1897.
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. 796, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire .
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. 43 p. 58.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 150.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 145, fig. 6, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Possible motif of FWN 314, although the overgrown vegetation shown in the photograph obscures what is seen in the foreground of the painting.
Photo: Didier Bonfort
Related
Additional material / links
- Statement by Philippe Cezanne (societe-cezanne.fr)
Record last updated February 8, 2023. 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, 1897 (FWN 314)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=772 (accessed on October 3, 2023).
