Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne

c. 1887

Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

A few pale brown buildings with terracotta red roofs are nestled among hills at the base of a towering, icy-blue mountain in this horizontal landscape painting. Only the pale indigo-violet shadows of the mountain are laid in, leaving the rest as the white of the canvas. The buildings and muted brown hills, blue shadows, and touches of sage green below are loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout around more blank areas of canvas.

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jos Hessel, Paris). (Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris). Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber [1880-1959], Lausanne; sold 1931 to Marie N. Harriman [1903-1970] and W. Averell Harriman [1891-1986], New York [Marie Harriman Gallery];[1] W. Averell Harriman Foundation, New York; gift 1972 to NGA.
[1] According to Harriman collection records, in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1933

  • A Century of Progress, Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 315

1937

  • Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1937, no. 20, repro.

  • Constable and the Landscape, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1937, no. 18

1939

  • Cezanne Centennial Exhibition, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1939, no. 8 or no. 10

1940

  • An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross and of Small Pictures by Members of the Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1940, no. 101

1956

  • Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1956, no. 115, repro.

1961

  • Exhibition of the Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1961, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 14

1971

  • Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Phillips Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, no. 15, repro.

1982

  • Cézanne, Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium; Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, 1982, no. 16, incorrect repro.

1984

  • A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-1985

1990

  • Sainte-Victoire Cézanne 1990, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, 1990, no. 36, repro.

1993

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Pamela Harriman, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1993-1997.

1999

  • Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 53, repro.

  • Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.

2000

  • Cézanne: Vollendet - Unvollendet [Cézanne: Finished - Unfinished], Kunstforum Wien, Vienna; Kunsthaus Zürich, 2000, no. 92, fig. 11.

2017

  • Paul Cézanne., Fondation Pierre Gianadda Martigny, 2017, no. 51, repro., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du pont de Bayeux à Meyreuil.

Bibliography

1936

  • Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.

1970

  • Orienti 1970, no.433.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 64, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 507, no. 754, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 83, repro.

1991

  • Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 9, 296, color repro.

1996

  • Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New York, 1996:no. 574, repro.

1997

  • Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 56-57, color repro.

2001

  • Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von Kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Freidrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, eds. Berlin, 2001: 387.

Wikidata ID

Q20189870


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