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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 76
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Gift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Pierre (Loeb), Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1956)
Ragnar Moltzau, Oslo, Norway, 1956
Sam Spiegel, New York (October 1958);
Estate of Sam Spiegel, Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 1987, no. 5, ill.
Henry Bloch, Kansas City;
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2015)
Exhibition History
1937c Paris
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.
1939 Belgrade
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.
1956c Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Maîtres de l'art moderne, August–October 1956, no. 17, ill., as Carrière de Bibémus.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 78, lent by Galerie Beyeler.
1957 Zurich and traveling
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.
1958 Edinburgh and traveling
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.
1977–78 New York and traveling
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).
1978a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 39, ill.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2020 Princeton and traveling
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 and Marschutz 1936
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 21, ill.
Venturi 1936a
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 6.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 778, ill. vol. II, as Carrière de Bibémus.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 90.
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), pp. 55 and 56, as Carrière Bibémus.
Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 43, ill.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 71.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 78, as Carrière Bibémus, 1895-99.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 134, ill.
Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 25.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 145.
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. 839, ill. vol. 2, as La Carrière de Bibémus.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
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 2008
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 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. 41, fig. 1.
Machotka 2014
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.
La Carrière de Bibémus, 1898–1900 (FWN 318)
Photo: Paul Smith
La Carrière de Bibémus, 1898–1900 (FWN 318). Site identified by Pavel Machotka and Dr. François Corsy.
Site identified by Pavel Machotka and Dr. François Corsy.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2006; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Additional material / links
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 April 19, 2024).