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)
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© Museum Folkwang, Essen
FWN 306
La Carrière de Bibémus
c.1895
Alternate titles: Bibémus Quarry; Carrière Bibémus; Carrière de Bibémus; Les carrières de Bibémus; Quarry at Bibémus; The Quarry at Bibémus
Rewald (797): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (767): 1898–1900; Ratcliffe: between1895 and 1899
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3987, huile; rocher rouge avec quelques arbres verts, 64 x 79 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4354, Paysage; rochers et arbres, 65 x 81 cm (1000 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum Folkwang, Hagen, Germany, Moderne Kunst: Plastik, Malerei, Graphik, [July] 1912, no. 114.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, hors catalogue.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 10, as La Carrière de Bibémus, lent by Kramarsky.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 107, ill. lent by Kramarsky. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 25, as The Quarry at Bibémus, lent by Siegfried Kramarsky.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 50, ill. lent by Kramarsky.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 17, lent by Siegfried Kramarsky.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 11, pl. 31. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 36, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 149, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 137 (63.5 x 79 cm).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 87, ill. Museum Folkwang, Essen. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 116, p. 342.
Published References
Servaes, Franz. "Moderne Bilder im Hagener Folkwang-Museum." Der Cicerone 12, no. 3 (1920), pp. 99-100.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 767, ill. vol. II, as Carrière de Bibémus.
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), pp. 55 and 56, as Carrière Bibémus.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 36.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 78.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 71, pl. XII (with photograph of the motif).
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 23, ill., as The Quarry at Bibémus.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 163.
Vogt, Paul. Das Museum Folkwang Essen. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1965, pp. 20, 124, 126, 169, p. 85, ill.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1165 (February 1966), p. 21, no. 88, ill., as Carrière Bibémus, 1898-1900.
Held, Jutta. Katalog der Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts. Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1971, no. 342, pl. XVIII.
Crespelle, Jean-Paul. "Cézanne's Magic Mountain." Réalités (November–December 1979), p. 58, ill.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 8.
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 129, fig. 32.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 171, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 119, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 200, ill.
Chovelon, Paul. "Léo Marchutz." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 254, fig. 221.
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. "La difficile recherche d'un nouvel espace." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 74-75.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, pp. 131-32, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 135, fig. 124, with photograph of the motif, fig. 123, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
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. 797, ill. vol. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Martin, François-René. "L'Arcadie, l'abstraction, l'ascèse. Baumeister et Cézanne." In Willi Baumeister et la France. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 14 p. 36, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 31, ill. in color.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 2.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 171, fig. 4.27, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 2.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 82, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1927), p. 83, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 143, ill.
Guégan, Stéphane. "Paul Cézanne: douce Provence." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 266 (August 2006), ill. p. 42, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 315; vol. 2, p. 214, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Byrd, Anne. "The Brush Stroke as Catastrophe: Gasquet's 'Cézanne' and the Paintings of Bibémus Quarry." RACAR; revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review 34, no. 1 (2009), p. 49,, fig. 6.
Kostenevich, Albert. "Liubov Popova: From Cézanne to Utopia." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 343, pl. 116, as Bibémus Quarry.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill., p. 342, pl. 116, as Bibémus Quarry.
Thomas, Gina. "Museum Folkwang: Essen." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1289 (August 2010), p. 566, fig. 66, as Quarry at Bibémus.
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. 195, fig. 112, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 174, fig. 116.
Chiappini, Rudy. "I temi prediletti del padre della modernità." In Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 8.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38, fig. 12.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 169, fig. 62b, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 62a, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Obenauf, Maria. Für die Nation gesichert?
Das "Verzeichnis der national wertvollen Kunstwerke": Entstehung, Etablierung und Instrumentalisierung 1919-1945. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016, pl. XII, ill. p. 352.
Rosebrock, Tessa. "Four Champions of Modernism, Cézanne's Supporters and Intermediaries in Germany During the Imperial Era." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 10.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 106.
Labrusse, Rémi. "L'épaisseur du temps." In Préhistoire: une énigme moderne. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 23, as Les carrières de Bibémus.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 11, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as Bibémus Quarry, dated 1895–1900, catalogue notes by John Elderfield and Ariel Kline.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 107.
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. 184, fig. 11, as The Quarry at Bibémus.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tiefenschürfungen: Cézannes Fels- und Steinbruchmalerei." Kunstchronik 74, no. 6 (June 2021), fig. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Record last updated June 5, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Carrière de Bibémus, c.1895 (FWN 306)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=773 (accessed on January 14, 2025).
