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 120
La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres
1878–79
Alternate titles: El mar en L'Estaque; Il mare all'Estaque; L'Estaque; La mer à l'Estaque; La Mer et l'Estaque; Paysage, L'Estaque; Sea at L'Estaque; The Sea at L'Estaque; The Sea at L'Estaque behind Trees
Rewald (395): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (425): 1883–86; Rivière: 1883 and c.1884; Cooper: between May 1883 and January 1884
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 3, as Paysage, L'Estaque, lent by Cézanne fils.
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Nineteenth Century Selection: French Paintings, March 1935, no. 1, ill.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Portrait par Albert Besnard de Frantz Jourdain, November 1–December 8, 1935, listed on p. 96, as L'Estaque, tentative identification, lent by Cézanne fils.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 13, ill., as L'Estaque.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 14, ill., as L'Estaque, dated 1883–86.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 29, pl. XI, lent by Cézanne fils.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 11, as L'Estaque, lent by Cézanne fils.
Musée du Louvre, Pavillon de Flore, Paris, Donations Picasso: la collection personnelle de Picasso, 1978, no. 5, ill. in b/w, as La mer à l'Estaque, catalogue entry: Anne Distel.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 36, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 23, ill.
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, L'Estaque, naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910, June 25–September 25, 1994, no. 11, ill. dated 1882–85.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 72, ill. shown in Paris and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Picasso und seine Sammlung, April 30–August 16, 1998, no. 10, ill., as La mer à l'Estaque.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, Da Van Gogh a Bacon: Roberto Tassi e i pittori, ottocento e novecento in Europa, August 5–December 8, 1998, p. 87, ill., as Il mare all'Estaque.
Grand Palais, Paris, Méditerranée: de Courbet à Matisse, September 19, 2000–January 15, 2001, no. 13, ill. 17, as La mer à l'Estaque.
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. 27, ill., p. 172 183 (detail), as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Picasso y su colección, December 19, 2007–March 30, 2008, no no., p. 82, ill., as El mar en L'Estaque, 1878-79.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 36, ill., as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 22, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 77, ill. Reflection: "Je traîne seule" by Laura Owens, p. 149. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 210, 212, listed.
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.
Bourgeois, Stephan. "A Vivid Panorama of Cézanne." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 9, ill., as L'Estaque.
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 10 p. 16, as L'Estaque.
Mellquist, Jerome. "Thirty Works of a French Master." Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 15, 1936, p. 71, ill.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 25, ill.
"Cézanne Pictures and Vollard Visit America." Art Digest 11, no. 4 (November 15, 1936), p. 7, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 425, ill. vol. II, as La Mer et l'Estaque.
"By a Great French 'Modern' – Cézanne." Illustrated London News (June 19, 1937), p. 1147, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 36.
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), p. 56.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 28, ill.
Billiet, Joseph. "Cézanne: une exposition du centenaire à Lyon." L'Humanité (Paris), May 27, 1939, ill. p. 8, as La mer à l'Estaque.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Le Salon des Indépendants." Le Monde illustré (Paris) (March 25, 1939), n.p. as ... d'une vue de l'Estaque ...
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 115, ill.
Roger-Marx, Claude. Le Paysage français de Corot à nos jours. Paris: Plon, 1952, p. 54, ill.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 5.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 16.
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. 8, ill., as La mer à l'Estaque.
Prati, Xavier, ed. L'Estaque au temps des peintres, 1870–1914. Marseille: Association College-quartier, 1985, p. 53, ill.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 150, ill.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 86, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 48-9.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 8-9.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 99.
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. 395, ill. vol. 2, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
García, Miguel Ángel. "El Robinsón electricista." Arte y Parte: revista de arte (Madrid), no. 9 (June-July 1997), ill. p. 81, as El mar en L'Estaque, 1883-86.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne: Words and Deeds." Translated by Rosalind Krauss. October 84 (Spring 1998), p. 36, ill., as Sea at L'Estaque.
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle. "Georges Braque. 'Krug und Violine' – der löchrige Grund." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 1.
Russell, John. "When the Sea Gave Birth to Wonder." International Herald Tribune (Paris) (October 7, 2000), p. 8, ill., as L'Estaque, 1878.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 117, fig. 22, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 23, ill., with contemporary photos of motif, p. 22, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Serrano, Véronique. "Cézanne's L'Estaque: Something More Secret." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 132–33, fig. 10, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 170; vol. 2, p. 120, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 316, fig. 11.17, as The Sea at L'Estaque.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54, fig. 3.1, as The Sea at L'Estaque.
Arrouye, Jean. "L'eau, miroir de la peinture." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 156, fig. 75, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 30, fig. 14.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 18, ill.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 57, fig. 67.
Inaga, Shigemi. "Between Revolutionary and Oriental Sage: Paul Cézanne in Japan." Japan review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies 28 (2015:), p. 138, fig. 7.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 68 (discussion p. 62), as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres, with contemporary photo of motif p. 59, fig. 65.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 16, ill.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 73, fig. 46, as The Sea at L'Estaque behind Trees.
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 5.
Record last updated March 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres, 1878–79 (FWN 120)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=941 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
