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Catalogue entry

© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 342
Rochers et arbres
c.1904–05
Alternate titles: Arbres et Rochers; Bäume in Gesteinen; Bouquet d'arbres; Felshalde mit Buschwerk; Landschaft; Les rochers; Rocks and Trees
Rewald (903): c.1904; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (775): c.1900
Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 26 in. (81.6 x 66 cm)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5140
Vollard archives: photo no. 57, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Fontainebleau 1894
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF286)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 22, 1911)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (March 24, 1911)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (September 23, 1912)
Josef Müller, Solothurn
[Galerie E. Bignou, Paris and New York]
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (February 12, 1936)
Exhibition History
1912a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 2, as Landschaft, tentative idenification; could also be no. 3, 5 or 6.
1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 139, as Felshalde mit Buschwerk, lent by Vollard or Müller.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 16, as Arbres et Rochers, tentative identification, lent by Muller.
Published References
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 490.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 98, as Bäume in Gesteinen, Photo: Thannhauser.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 775, ill. vol. II, as Bouquet d'arbres.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 179, p. 254, ill.
De Mazia 1979
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part II." Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1979), pl. 71.
De Mazia 1981–83a
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 41.
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. 903, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers et arbres.
Dolkart and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 159, ill. p. 154, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Schaefer 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 139, p. 555.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016c
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 559, ill. listed as probably cat. no. 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in "1912a Berlin" exhibition.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 77, ill., as Les rochers.
Elderfield et al 2020
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 9, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as Rocks and Trees, dated 1900–04, catalogue notes by Annemarie Iker.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 58, pp. 288–92, as Rocks and Trees (catalogue notes by J. Elderfield).
Notes

Often considered a view of rocks and trees at Château Noir or Bibémus Quarry in Aix, the painting may have been executed in the forest of Fontainebleau, where the artist spent the summers in 1904 and 1905.

Record last updated April 13, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers et arbres, c.1904–05 (FWN 342)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=877 (accessed on April 26, 2024).