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 307
Dans la carrière de Bibémus
c.1895
Alternate titles: Carrière de Bibémus; Cava di pietra a Bibémus; Dans les carrières de Bibémus; In the Bibémus Quarry; La Carrière du Tholonet
Rewald (798): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (772): 1898–1900; Ratcliffe: between 1895 and 1899
Oil on canvas
31 1/8 x 25 in. (79 x 63.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3470, huile; rochers rouges très esquissés; ciel bleu sur lequel se détachent q.q. arbustes, 81 x 65 cm (100 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, XIX-XX Centuries, November 6–December 3, 1933, no. 11, as La Carrière du Tholonet, 1897. Traveled to: Arts and Crafts Club, Detroit, December 11, 1933–January 1934.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 21, as La Carrière du Tholonet, lent by Vollard.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Passions privées: collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, December 15, 1995–March 24, 1996, A8, no. 2, ill. in color, as Dans la carrière de Bibémus, 1898-1900.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Préhistoire: une énigme moderne, May 8–September 16, 2019, listed p. 288, ill. p. 25, as Dans les carrières de Bibémus.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 7.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 772, ill. vol. II, as Dans la 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), p. 55, as ...paysage peint à la Carrière Bibémus ...
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 35.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 168, p. 260, ill. (analysis p. 388).
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 32.
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. 798, ill. vol. 2, as Dans la carrière de Bibémus.
Tuma, Kathryn A. "Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock." Representations vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 76, fig. 3.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 170, fig. 4.26, as Dans 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. 50, fig. 7.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 129, fig. 37.
Causey, Faya. "Finds." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 40 (detail).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 115bis, ill, as Carrière 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. 13, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as In the Bibémus Quarry, dated 1900–04, catalogue notes by John Elderfield and Ariel Kline.
Record last updated October 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Dans la carrière de Bibémus, c.1895 (FWN 307)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=774 (accessed on July 11, 2025).
