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 308
Le Rocher rouge
c.1895
Alternate titles: Le rocher rouge; The Red Rock
Rewald (799): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (776): c.1900; Ratcliffe: between 1895 and 1899
Oil on canvas
35 13/16 x 26 in. (91 x 66 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3865, huile; paysage en hauteur à droite grand pan rouge, 92 x 65 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4136, Paysage, 92 x 67 cm (200 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7033, Paysage. grand mur rouge, 92 x 68 cm
Provenance
Exhibition History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, XIX-XX Centuries, November 6–December 3, 1933, no. 12, as Le Rocher rouge, 1897. Traveled to: Arts and Crafts Club, Detroit, December 11, 1933–January 1934.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 32, ill., as Le rocher rouge, 1900, lent by Vollard.
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 15, ill.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 47, ill. in b/w, as Le rocher rouge, c. 1895-1900.
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. 13, pl. 33. 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. 37, ill.
Musée du Prieuré, Saint Germain-en-Laye, France, L'Eclatement de l'impressionnisme, October 13, 1982–January 16, 1983, no number, ill., pp. 39, 57.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 13, ill., as Le rocher rouge. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 30, ill., as Le rocher rouge, c. 1995-1900. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 13, ill., as Le rocher rouge.
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 108–09, ill., as Le rocher rouge.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 27, ill., as Le rocher rouge.
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionistas y postimpresionistas: el nacimiento del arte moderno, February 2–May 5, 2013, no. 30, ill., as Le Rocher rouge.
Musée Granet and Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Aix-en Provence and Marseille, France, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Cézanne à Matisse [Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence]; de Van Gogh à Bonnard [Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Marseille], June 13–October 13, 2013, no. 107, ill., p. 176, shown in Aix.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Préhistoire: une énigme moderne, May 8–September 16, 2019, listed p. 288, as Le rocher rouge.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 14, ill., as The Red Rock, dated 1895–1900, catalogue notes by John Elderfield and Ariel Kline. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne/Renoir, Capolovori dal Musée de l'Orangerie, March 19–June 30, 2024, no. 9, ill. Traveled to: Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, France, July 13–November 19, 2024 (Titled: Cézanne - Renoir, Regards croisés); Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, January 17–May 7, 2025; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, May 29–September 7, 2025; Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, September 20, 2025–January 25, 2026.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 776, ill. vol. II, as Le rocher rouge.
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 ...
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 169, listed.
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 15, ill., as Le rocher rouge.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 28.
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 38, no. 13, ill., as Le rocher rouge.
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 38–39, no. 13, ill., as The Red Rock.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 205, ill.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 59, ill.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 132, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 138.
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. 799, ill. vol. 2, as Le rocher rouge.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, fig. 13, as Le rocher rouge.
Tuma, Kathryn A. "Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock." Representations vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 59, fig. 1.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 172, fig. 4.28, as Le rocher rouge.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 85, ill. with photo of motif (2005), p. 84, as Le rocher rouge.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 45, fig. 12, as Le rocher rouge.
Conisbee, Philip. "Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 5, as Le rocher rouge.
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. 42, fig. 2.
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, fig. 115, ill. p. 155.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 50, fig. 56.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157 fig. 1.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 4.
Record last updated November 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Rocher rouge, c.1895 (FWN 308)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=775 (accessed on December 4, 2024).
