Catalogue entry

FWN 354
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1902–06
Alternate titles: Die Motagne Sainte-Victoire; La montagna Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (914): 1902–06; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (802): 1904–6; Gowing: c.1904 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne
Emil Georg Bührle, Zurich (Aug. 12, 1937);
Hortense Anda-Bührle, Zurich (1960);
Private collection (2014)
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 57, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1906, lent by Private collection, Paris.
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 39, lent by Bührle, Zürich.
1943 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July 25–September 26, 1943, no. 540, fig. 50, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
1950 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Europäische Kunst, 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert, June 6–August 13, 1950, listed p. 26, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904/6, lent by Private collection.
1958 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, June 8–September 30, 1958, no. 232, pl. XIV.
1961 Edinburgh and traveling
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection, August 19–September 17, 1961, no. 37, pl. 19b. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, 1961.
1966 Recklinghausen
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany, Variationen, June 8–July 31, 1966, no. 34, ill., as Die Motagne Sainte-Victoire, Bührle-Schalk collection, Zurich.
1990 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zürich, May 6–July 15, 1990, no. 44, ill., (dated 1904–06), as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, August 3–October 14, 1990; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 2, 1990–January 13, 1991; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 1–April 9, 1991.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 92, ill.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 134, ill., (Zurich only), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2003–04 Treviso
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. 93, ill., as La montagna Sainte-Victoire, 1904-1906.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 163, ill. lent by Private collection, shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2010–11 Genoa
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, November 27, 2010–May 1, 2011, no. 55, ill. p. 40.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 57, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Waldemar-George 1930a
Waldemar-George. "Cézanne: 1930." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 4 (April 1930), p. 20-21, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi 1935b
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 413, fig. 30.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 55.
Venturi 1936a
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 9.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 802, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 83.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), pp. 55 and 56, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Bazin 1938
Bazin, Germain. "Cézanne et la Montagne Sainte-Victoire." L'Amour de l'art 19, no. 10 (December 1938), ill. p. 383 (with photograph of motif).
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 96.
Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 45, ill.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 72.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 83, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1904-06.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 145, listed p. 170.
Jedlicka 1948
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 44, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Ring 1949
Ring, Grete. A Century of French Painting, 1400–1500. London: Phaidon, 1949, pl. 18.
Wild 1950
Wild, Doris. Moderne Malerei. Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1950, pl. 15.
Venturi 1950a
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 139.
Ramuz 1951
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 61, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 119, ill.
Leymarie 1955
Leymarie, Jean. L'Impressionnisme, vol. 2. Geneva: Skira, 1955, p. 113.
Berger 1958
Berger, René. Découverte de la peinture. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1958, fig. 36, p. 39 (with photo of motif), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Dittmann 1961
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, fig. 4.
Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 47.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 156.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 69 (detail).
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 71.
Gowing 1977
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67, ill.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 123.
Rewald 1977b
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 98, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Turner 1981
Turner, Norman. "Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne." The Art Bulletin 63, no. 4 (December 1981), fig. 5.
Wetenhall 1982
Wetenhall, John. "Cézanne's 'Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves.'" Pantheon, Internationale Zeitschrift für Kunst 40, no. 1 (January–March 1982), fig. 2, in color, 1904-1906.
Thomson 1983
Thomson, Belinda. The Post-Impressionists. London: Phaidon Press, 1983, pl. 166.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 83, ill. in b/w.
Cheylan 1990
Cheylan, Gilles. "D'après nature." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 8, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Arrouye 1995
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 110, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 92-3.
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. 914, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Feilchenfeldt 2005b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 193, ill.
Guégan 2006
Guégan, Stéphane. "Paul Cézanne: douce Provence." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 266 (August 2006), ill. p. 43, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 335; vol. 2, p. 222, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Van Look 2008
Van Look, Hans-Günther. Sehrevolte der Scheinung: Cézanne am Mont Sainte-Victoire. Munich: Verlag Karl Alber GmbH Freiburg, 2008, p. 9 of illustrations.
Morton 2013
Morton, Mary. "Courbet, Cézanne: L'art de paindre en série." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 79, fig. 6.
Nagaï 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 126, ill.
France-Lanord 2018
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 116 (detail), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Gloor 2021
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 256, no. 29, fig. 29 p. 257, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
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. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves, 1902–06 (FWN 354)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=888 (accessed on April 23, 2024).