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 333
Rochers et branches à Bibémus
1900–04
Alternate titles: Las canteras de Bibemus; Rocce e rami a Bibémus; Rocks and Branches at Bibémus
Rewald (881): 1900–04; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (785): 1900–1904; Reff: c.1895 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
24 x 19 13/16 in. (61 x 50.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3665, huile; paysage rochers rougeâtres et arbres, 61 x 50 cm (100 frs)
Exhibition History
Petit Palais, Paris, Un siècle d'art français, 1850–1950, 1953, no. 446, ill., pl. 37, as Rochers et branches à Bibémus, c. 1904.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 26, as Rochers et branches à Bibémus, lent by the Petit Palais, Paris.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 40.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Exposition d'art français au Japon 1840–1960, November 3, 1961–January 15, 1962, no. 109, ill. p. 80, as Rochers et branches à Bibémus. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, January 26–March 15, 1962.
Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Cien años de pintura en Francia: de 1850 a nuestros días, October–November 1962, no. 24, as Las canteras de Bibemus, 1904, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Paysages du Midi de Cézanne à Derain, 1969, no. 11, ill. cover, as Rochers et branches à Bibémus, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
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. 18, pl. 35. 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. 40, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 33, fig. 244.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 74, ill., as Rochers et branches à Bibémus, 1900-04, lent by Musée du Petit Palais, Paris.
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. 38, ill., as Rocce e rami a Bibémus, c. 1895.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, June 17–September 26, 2004, n. no., pp. 138-139, 213, ill., as Rochers et branches à Bibémus.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France, De Corot à l'art moderne: souvenirs et variations, February 20–May 20, 2009, no. 10, ill., as Rochers et branches à Bibémus, c. 1895-1904.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 33, ill. lent by Petit Palais, musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 44, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 15, ill., as Rocks and Branches at Bibémus, dated 1900–04, 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
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 785, ill. vol. II, as Rochers et branches à Bibémus.
Novotny, Fritz. Über das "Elementare" in der Kunstgeschichte und andere Aufsätze. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum, 1968, p. 31, fig. 6 p. 148.
Crespelle, Jean-Paul. "Cézanne's Magic Mountain." Réalités (November–December 1979), p. 60, ill. (detail).
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. 881, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers et branches à 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. 47, fig. 5.
Record last updated November 3, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers et branches à Bibémus, 1900–04 (FWN 333)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=855 (accessed on January 14, 2025).
