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 318
La Carrière de Bibémus
1898–1900
Alternate titles: Bibémus Quarry; Carrière Bibémus; Carrière de Bibémus; La Carrière de Bibémus; Les Rochers de Bibémus
Rewald (839): 1898–1900; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (778): c.1900; Ratcliffe: between 1895 and 1899
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3653, rochers rouges surmontés d'un arbre un peu parasol, huile, 65 x 54 cm (100 frs)
Provenance
Henry Bloch, Kansas City;
Exhibition History
Jeu de Paume, Paris, Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, July 30–October 31, 1937, no. 20, as Les Rochers de Bibémus, 1900.
Palais du Prince Paul, Belgrade, Serbia, La Peinture française au XIXe siècle, March–April 1939, no. 7, as La Carrière de Bibémus, lent by Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Maîtres de l'art moderne, August–October 1956, no. 17, ill., as Carrière de Bibémus.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 78, lent by Galerie Beyeler.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Moltzau Collection, February 9–March 31, 1957, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands, April 19–June 11, 1957; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 23–September 20, 1958; The Tate Gallery, London, October 3–November 2, 1958.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, From Cézanne to Picasso: The Moltzau Collection, August 23–September 20, 1958, no. 21, ill. in color. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, October 3–November 2, 1958.
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. 15, pl. 34, lent by Sam Spiegel. 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. 39, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 84, ill., (dated 1896–97), shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 18, ill., as Bibémus Quarry, 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).
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 21, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 6.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 778, 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.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 43, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 78, as Carrière Bibémus, 1895-99.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 134, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 25.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 145.
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. 839, ill. vol. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 91, ill. with photo of motif (2005), p. 90, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 321; vol. 2, p. 217, 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. 41, fig. 1.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 175, fig. 65b, with color photo of similar motif, fig. 65a, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Photo: Paul Smith
Site identified by Pavel Machotka and Dr. François Corsy.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2006; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Additional material / links
- Complete history and technical study from Museum's online catalogue (Feb. 2021) (nelson-atkins.org)
Record last updated March 14, 2023. 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, 1898–1900 (FWN 318)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=814 (accessed on December 11, 2024).
