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 345
Paysage bleu
1904–06
Alternate titles: Blaue Landschaft; La paysage bleu; Paysage; Paysage en bleu
Rewald (882): 1904–06; Venturi revised: 1900–1906; Venturi (793): 1900–1906; Gowing: c.1905 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
40 3/16 x 32 11/16 in. (102 x 83 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4463, paysage bleu, 81 x 100 cm (6000/12000 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 54, as Paysage bleu, lent by Vollard.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 24.
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, From van Gogh to Picasso: Nineteenth and twentieth - century Paintings and Drawings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad, April 30–July 16, 1972, no. 6, ill. in b/w.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R.: lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad [and] the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 31–April 29, 1973, no. 6, ill., as Paysage en bleu, 1900-04. Traveled to: Knoedler Gallery, New York, May 3–June 3, 1973; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 15–July 8, 1973; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 18–August 12, 1973; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, August 22–September 16, 1973; The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, August 26–October 21, 1973.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 58, 1903.
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. 47, pl. 71. 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. 59, ill.
Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 11. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 20, ill., as Paysage bleu, c. 1904-06.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 49, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 50, ill., p. 118, as Paysage bleu.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 139, ill., as Paysage bleu. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 233, ill. pp. 124 and 218, as Paysage bleu.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 144, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 19, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, The Morosov Brothers: Great Russian Collectors, June 20–October 6, 2019, no. 34.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 490, ill. p. 279, as Paysage bleu.
Published References
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, as Paysage.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 468, as Paysage bleu.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 570.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 752.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 793, ill. vol. II, as Paysage en bleu.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 26, listed p. 339, as La paysage bleu.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 46, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 147, pl. 52.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 181, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 169, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 142, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 225, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 455, fig. 63.
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. 882, ill. vol. 2 and p. 62, ill. col. vol. 1, as Paysage bleu.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 3.
Kostenevich, Albert. "Cézanne in Russland." In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, fig. 1, as Blaue Landschaft.
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.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 343; vol. 2, p. 225, as Paysage bleu.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 39, fig. 22.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 33.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 65, ill., as Paysage bleu.
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed), ill. p 279.
Ozerkov, Dimitri. "Paul Cezanne as a Russian Avant-Garde Painter." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Buda[pest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Record last updated May 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage bleu, 1904–06 (FWN 345)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=856 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
