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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 375
Musée Picasso, Paris (donation Picasso, 1973) (RF 1973-59)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Max Pellequer, Paris
Pablo Picasso, Mougins (c. 1952, in an exchange);
Musée Picasso, Paris
Exhibition History
1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 3, as Paysage, L'Estaque, lent by Cézanne fils.
1935a New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Nineteenth Century Selection: French Paintings, March 1935, no. 1, ill.
1935a Paris
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.
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 13, ill., as L'Estaque.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1937b New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 14, ill., as L'Estaque, dated 1883–86.
1939 Lyon
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.
1939b Paris
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.
1978c Paris
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.
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 36, ill.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 23, ill.
1994 Marseille
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, L'Estaque, naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910, June 25–September 25, 1994, no. 11, ill. dated 1882–85.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
1998 Munich
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Picasso und seine Sammlung, April 30–August 16, 1998, no. 10, ill., as La mer à l'Estaque.
1998 Treviso
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.
2000–2001 Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Méditerranée: de Courbet à Matisse, September 19, 2000–January 15, 2001, no. 13, ill. 17, as La mer à l'Estaque.
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. 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.
2007–08 Barcelona
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.
2009 Aix-en-Provence
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.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 22, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
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 Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 210, 212, listed.
Dormoy 1930
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.
Bourgeois 1936
Bourgeois, Stephan. "A Vivid Panorama of Cézanne." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 9, ill., as L'Estaque.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 33.
L'Art sacré 1936
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 10 p. 16, as L'Estaque.
Mellquist 1936
Mellquist, Jerome. "Thirty Works of a French Master." Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 15, 1936, p. 71, ill.
Rewald and Marschutz 1936
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 25, ill.
Art Digest 1936a
"Cézanne Pictures and Vollard Visit America." Art Digest 11, no. 4 (November 15, 1936), p. 7, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 425, ill. vol. II, as La Mer et l'Estaque.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 4.
Illustrated London News 1937
"By a Great French 'Modern' – Cézanne." Illustrated London News (June 19, 1937), p. 1147, ill.
Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 36.
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), p. 56.
Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 28, ill.
Billiet 1939
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 1939
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Le Salon des Indépendants." Le Monde illustré (Paris) (March 25, 1939), n.p. as ... d'une vue de l'Estaque ...
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 115, ill.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 42, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 79, listed p. 157.
Roger-Marx 1952
Roger-Marx, Claude. Le Paysage français de Corot à nos jours. Paris: Plon, 1952, p. 54, ill.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, pp. 82–83, ill.
Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 5.
Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 16.
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. 8, ill., as La mer à l'Estaque.
Prati 1985
Prati, Xavier, ed. L'Estaque au temps des peintres, 1870–1914. Marseille: Association College-quartier, 1985, p. 53, ill.
Bonafoux 1986
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 150, ill.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 79.
Arrouye 1995
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 37, ill.
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. 86, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 48-9.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 25, ill.
Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 8-9.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 99.
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. 395, ill. vol. 2, as La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres.
García 1997
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 1998
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 1998
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 130, fig. 79.
Russell 2000
Russell, John. "When the Sea Gave Birth to Wonder." International Herald Tribune (Paris) (October 7, 2000), p. 8, ill., as L'Estaque, 1878.
Shiff 2000
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 2005
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.
Farber 2006
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 47, ill. in color.
Serrano 2006
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 2008
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 2009
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 2009a
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 2011
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 2011
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 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 18, ill.
Benedetti 2013b
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 2015
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 2019
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 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 16, ill.
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, p. 73, fig. 46, as The Sea at L'Estaque behind Trees.
Smith 2023
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 5.
La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres, 1878–79 (FWN 120). View of motif with buildings and chimneys, past and present, identified by Geneviève Blanc
View of motif with buildings and chimneys, past and present, identified by Geneviève Blanc
Photo: Courtesy Geneviève Blanc
La Mer à l'Estaque derrière les arbres, 1878–79 (FWN 120)
Photo: Geneviève Blanc
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 April 26, 2024).