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 304
Bibémus
1894–95
Alternate titles: Die roten Felsen bei Gardanne; La terre rouge (Bibémus); Rochers rouges à Bibémus
Rewald (794): 1894–95; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (781): c.1900
Oil on canvas
28 x 35 3/8 in. (71 x 90 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 25, as Die roten Felsen bei Gardanne, lent by Private collection.
Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, opening: October 16, 1939, no. 24, as Rochers rouges à Bibémus, c. 1900, For sale. Traveled to: Exhibition Gallery, David Jones', Sidney, Australia, opening: November 20, 1939.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 37, lent by Thannhauser.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 16, as Bibémus, lent by Thannhauser ("exhibited for the first time").
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 105, ill. lent by Thannhauser. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Art in the Twentieth Century, June 17–July 10, 1955.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Guggenheim: de Manet à Picasso, la collection Thannhauser, May 1–September 29, 2019, p. 89, ill., cover (detail), as Bibémus, c. 1894-1895.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 781, ill. vol. II, as Bibémus.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978, no. 6, p. 35, ill.
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. 794, ill. vol. 2, as Bibémus.
Chanin, Eileen, Steven Miller and Judith Pugh. Degenrates and perverts: the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art. Victoria (Australia): Miegunyah Press, 2005, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 195, fig. 111, as Bibémus, n.b.: photo is better in catalogue than this one, which is too blue/purple.
Fontanella, Megan et al. Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, pp. 70-73, no. 8, ill., fig. 8.2 (oblique view), fig. 8.3 (infrared reflectogram), fig. 8.4 and 8.5 (detail), as Bibémus.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 115, ill., as La terre rouge (Bibémus).
Swinbourne, Anna. "L'Estaque; Fontainebleau; Bibémus; Château Noir." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 103, fig. 68, as Bibémus, dated 1895–1900.
Record last updated July 16, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bibémus, 1894–95 (FWN 304)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=954 (accessed on April 26, 2025).
