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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 361
Château Noir
1900–04
Alternate titles: Castillo negro; Château-Noir; Het zwarte kasteel; Le Château Noir
Rewald (941): 1903–04; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (795): 1904–6; Ratcliffe: c.1904 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4464, Château noir, 73 x 92 cm (6000/11000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 104, Annotated: Tholonet circa 1902
Provenance
(Estate of Paul Cezanne?)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Feb. 12, 1907)
Pablo Picasso, Mougins (Feb. 1934?);
Musée du Louvre, Paris (Gift of Pablo Picasso);
Musée Picasso, Paris
Exhibition History
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. 52, pl. 59. 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. 53 bis, ill., (addendum, p. 237).1978c Paris
Musée du Louvre, Pavillon de Flore, Paris, Donations Picasso: la collection personnelle de Picasso, 1978, no. 6, ill. in color, as Château Noir, catalogue entry: Anne Distel.1989 Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 7, ill., as Château Noir, 1904-1906.1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 30, figs. 30 and 266.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 96, ill.1998 Munich
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Picasso und seine Sammlung, April 30–August 16, 1998, no. 8, ill., as Château Noir.1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 44, ill., p. 61, as Château Noir.2005–06 Marseille and traveling
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 39, ill., p. 181, as Château Noir. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 100, ill., (dated 1900–04), shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.2007–08 Barcelona
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Picasso y su colección, December 19, 2007–March 30, 2008, no no., p. 81, ill., as Castillo negro, 1905.2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 58, ill. lent by Musée Picasso, Paris.2020 Paris
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 27, ill. lent by Musée Picasso, Paris.Published References
Rewald and Marschutz 1935a
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), pp. 19-20, no. 8, fig. 15 p. 20, with photograph of motif, as Le Château Noir.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 795, ill. vol. II, as Le Château Noir.Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 9.Penrose 1971
Penrose, Roland. Portrait of Picasso. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971, fig. 319.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. 90, ill. (with photograph of the motif).Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 57.Besnard-Bernadac et al. 1985
Besnard-Bernadac, Marie-Laure et al. "Collection personnelle de Picasso." In Musée Picasso: catalogue sommaire des collections, I. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985, p. 234, no. T. 9, ill., as Château Noir.Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 154, ill. in color.Ely 1990
Ely, Bruno. "La plus haute sommité du département." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 184, fig. 166, as Château Noir.Coutagne 1995
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 144, ill.Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 112, ill.Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 28-29.Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 110, fig. 82, with photographs of the motif, figs. 79 and 80, as Le Château Noir.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. 941, ill. vol. 2, as Château Noir.Boehm 2002
Boehm, Gottfried. "Paul Cézanne - La Passione per il visibile." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 57.Coutagne 2004
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 96, ill. in color.Jensen 2006
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 46, as Château Noir.Riley 2006
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), p. 627, fig. 53, as Château Noir, 1900-04.Patin 2009a
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne!… vous pensez bien que j'ai regardé ses tableaux…" In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 99, fig. 30, as Château Noir, dated 1905–06.Patin 2009b
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne! … naturlijk heb ik zijn schilderijen bekeken…' [Picasso]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, as Het zwarte kasteel, 1905-1906.Warman 2011
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 173, fig. 90, as Château-Noir.Coutagne 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 175, fig. 117.Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 186, fig 70d, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 184, figs. 70a and 70b, as Château Noir.Nagaï 2022a
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 7.
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated October 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Château Noir, 1900–04 (FWN 361)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=914 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
