The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 303
Sous-bois
1893–94
Alternate titles: Forest; Landscape
Rewald: (815) 1893–94; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi: (419) 1882–85; Vollard: 1894
Oil on canvas
45 11/16 x 31 7/8 in. (116 x 81 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1, sous bois, 103 x 89 cm (75,000 Fr)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1895.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930, no. 18, as Landscape, lent by Bakwin.
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940, no. 237.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, Paintings by Cézanne, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 5, ill., lent by Bakwin.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from New York Private Collections, July 2–September 22, 1946, no number, p. 4, listed.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Manet to Matisse: An Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century French Paintings, May 27–June 26, 1949, no. 6.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 76, ill., lent by Bakwin. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 29, ill., lent by Bakwin.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 34, ill., lent by Bakwin.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 27, ill.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 46, pl. 18.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December, 1956–January, 1957, no. 18, ill., lent by Bakwin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 25, ill., lent by Bakwin.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, The Bakwin Collection, October 4–November 4, 1967, no. 5, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 157, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 73, ill., as Sous-bois, 1893-94, lent by Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 37, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 106, ill., p. 213 (dated c. 1894), as Sous-bois. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–September 12, 2006. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 141, p. 402 (dated 1894), as Sous-bois.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 28 as Sous-bois.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 419, ill. vol. II as Sous-bois.
Frost, Rosamund. "Collectors Come Out of Privacy." Art News 45, no. 5 (July 1946), p. 15, ill.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 28, pl. 27.
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 28, ill.
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. 815, ill. vol. 2 and p. 59, ill. col. vol. 1 as Sous-bois.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 237, ill.
Schiff, Richard. "Cézanne in the wild." The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXLVIII, no. 1242 (September 2006), fig. 24 as Forest.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 246; vol. 2, p. 164 as Sous-bois.
Lanchner, Carolyn. "Cézanne and Giacometti: An Odd Couple." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 402, pl. 141 as Forest, dated 1894.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 56 and 100, ill,101, fig. 3.19 (detail), p. 402, pl. 141 as Forest, dated 1894.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Melancholie und 'décoration.' Zur Stimmung im Werk Paul Cézannes." In Stimmung. Ästhetische Kategorie und künstlerische Praxis, edited by Kerstin Thomas. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 90, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 88, pl.12.
Record last updated November 17, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Sous-bois, 1893–94 (FWN 303)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=791 (accessed on July 17, 2019).
