The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Hickey-Robertson, Houston
FWN 329
Arbres (Le Tholonet)
1900–04
Alternate titles: Arbres - Le Tholonet; Arbres--Le Tholonet; Fôret de Tholonet; Trees at Le Tholonet
Rewald (879): 1900–04; Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Oil on canvas
32 x 25 5/8 in. (81.3 x 65 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3677, huile; esquisse de la Forêt de Fontainebleau, 81 x 65 cm (75 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, St. Louis Collections: An Exhibition of 20th Century Art, September 20–October 25, 1948, no. 9.
University of St. Thomas Art Gallery, Houston, Visage of Culture, Fall 1959.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, From Gauguin to Gorky, October 20–December 11, 1960, no. 8, ill.
University of St. Thomas Art Gallery, Houston, Look Back, An Exhibition of Cubist Paintings and Sculptures from the Menil Family Collection, March 13–September 13, 1968, no. 1, ill., as Trees at Le Tholonet. Traveled to: Nelson Gallery of Art - Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, October 1–November 1, 1968; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, November 6–December 5, 1968; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, January 8–February 16, 1969; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 23–March 23, 1969; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, April 29–June 1, 1969; The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 22–September 7, 1969; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, September 24–October 26, 1969; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, November 9, 1969–January 1, 1970.
Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Selections from the Menil Collection, 1971.
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. 17, pl. 76. 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. 61, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 125, ill., as Arbres (Le Tholonet). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 56, ill. p. 315, as Arbres (Le Tholonet), lent by The Menil Collection, Houston.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Becoming Modern: 19th-Century French Drawings from The Morgan Library & Museum and The Menil Collection, February 27–June 14, 2015.
Published References
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. XVI (in color), as Fôret de Tholonet, dated 1904.
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. 879, ill. vol. 2, as Arbres--Le Tholonet.
The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1997, no. 133 p. 178, ill. p. 179, as Trees at Le Tholonet, c. 1904.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 3, as Arbres (Le Tholonet).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 333; vol. 2, p. 221, as Arbres - Le Tholonet.
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. "Arbres (Le Tholonet), 1900–04 (FWN 329)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=853 (accessed on January 22, 2025).
