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Catalogue entry

Peter Schibli, Basel
FWN 339
Sous-bois
1900–02
Alternate titles: Camino desde Mas Jolie al Château Noir; Sous-bois (Chemin du Mas Jolie au Château Noir); Sous-bois provençal
Rewald (884): 1900–02; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1527): 1895–1900
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 3/8 in. (81 x 64.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3837, huile; arbres entrecroises formant une sorte de berceau, 81 x 65 cm (100 frs)
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (Inv. 67.1)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris;
Estate of Ambroise Vollard, Paris
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York)
Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York (May 1957)
Zannis L. Cambanis, London (Aug. 1957)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Jan. 29, 1958)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (Jan. 2, 1959)
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
Sotheby's, London, Apr. 26, 1967, no. 26, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Exhibition History
1952b London
Matthiesen Gallery, London, French Paintings of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, June 19–July 25, 1952, no. 4, ill.
1958c Paris
Knoedler Galleries, Paris, Les Soirées de Paris, May 16–June 30, 1958, no. 5, ill.
1959 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Selection, 1959, no. 2, ill.
1960–61 Zurich and traveling
Kunsthaus, Zurich, The G. David Thompson Collection, October 15–November 27, 1960, no. 19, shown Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunstmuseum, Düsselfdorf, December 14, 1960–January 29, 1961; Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, February 17–April 9, 1961; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, October–November 1961.
1961b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, One Hundred Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection, May–August 1961.
1967a Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Présence des Maîtres, June–September 1967, no. 6, ill.
1977 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Bonnard: Oeuvres tardives, June–September 1977, no. 11, ill., as Sous-bois.
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. 9, pl. 72. 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. 60, ill.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 23, ill., (dated 1895–1900), as Sous-bois, lent by Private collection.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 48.
1989 Madrid
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Collección Beyeler, May 24–June 24, 1989, no no., pp. 35–37, ill., as Camino desde Mas Jolie al Château Noir.
1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 35, fig. 246.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 74, ill.
1993 Berlin
Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Wege der Moderne: die Sammlung Beyeler, April 30–August 1, 1993, no. 9, ill.
1993–94 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Magic Blue, December 1993–March 1994, no. 9.
1995 London
Royal Academy of Arts, London, From Manet to Gauguin: Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections, June 30–October 8, 1995, no. 9, ill.
1996–97 Sidney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: The Beyeler Collection, December 7, 1996–March 2, 1997, no. 3, ill.
1998–99 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Magie der Bäume, November 21, 1998–April 5, 1999, no. 20, ill., as Sous-bois (Chemin du Mas Jolie au Château Noir).
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 33, ill., p. 78, as Sous-bois.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 117, ill., as Sous-bois. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2006–07a Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Hommage à Paul Cézanne, October 21, 2006–January 7, 2007.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 173, ill.
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 48, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 130, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1527, ill. vol. II, as Sous-bois.
Berger 1958
Berger, René. Découverte de la peinture. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1958, fig. 34, p. 37, as Sous-bois.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 74.
Ponente 1980
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 32.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 73, ill.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 88, ill. in color.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 109.
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. 884, ill. vol. 2, as Sous-bois.
Beyeler 1997
Fondation Beyeler, ed. Sammlung Beyeler. Munich: Prestel, 1997, pp. 66-67, no. 9.
Du 1997
Du. "Sammlung Beyeler: die Werke, der Bau." Du 57, no. 12 (December 1997), p. 29, ill.
Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 6.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 324; vol. 2, p. 218, as Sous-bois.
Leopold Museum 2010
"Paul Cézanne in der Sammlung Beyeler." In Cézanne – Picasso – Giacometti: Meisterwerke der Fondation Beyeler, Leopold Musuem (editor). Vienna: Leopold Musuem-Privatstiftung, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 96, ill., as Sous-bois.
Nagaï 2017
Nagaï, Takanori. "How Paul Cézanne Rejected the Fini Concept." Kyoto Studies in Art History vol. 2 (2017), p. 145, fig. 12.
Record last updated April 20, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Sous-bois, 1900–02 (FWN 339)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=858 (accessed on April 26, 2024).