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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7037, Carrière rochers rouges. paysage, 81 x 65 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1359, rochers rouges; huile, 81 x 65 (40,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 253, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Tholonet 1897
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris;
Estate of Ambroise Vollard, Paris;
Robert de Galéa, Paris;
Private collection, Paris;
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2022, no. 22C, il.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1933–34 New York and traveling
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.
1935b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, July 1935, no. 14, as La Carrière du Tholonet.
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 21, as La Carrière du Tholonet, lent by Vollard.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1995–96 Paris
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.
2019d Paris
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 1936a
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 7.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 772, ill. vol. II, as Dans la carrière de Bibémus.
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. 55, as ...paysage peint à la Carrière Bibémus ...
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 35.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 168, p. 260, ill. (analysis p. 388).
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 260-61.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 32.
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. 798, ill. vol. 2, as Dans la carrière de Bibémus.
Tuma 2002
Tuma, Kathryn A. "Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock." Representations vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 76, fig. 3.
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. 170, fig. 4.26, as Dans la carrière de Bibémus.
Byrd 2009
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 129, fig. 37.
Causey 2020
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 2020
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 et al 2020
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 April 24, 2024).