
Montagne Sainte-Victoire (The Arc Valley)
Paul Cezanne · c. 1885
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist's son, Paul Cézanne, Paris, to at least 1943 [Venturi 1943]. Otto Wertheimer (died 1972), Paris [Rewald 1983]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to Henry T. Mudd (died 1990), Los Angeles [Paris 1996; Knoedler and Company, New York [Paris 1996]. Given by Marshall Field, IV, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Salon d'Automne, "Rétrospective d'Oeuvres de Paul Cézanne," 1907, cat. 33.
- Paris, Renou & Colle, "Aquarelles et Baignades de Cézanne," June 1935, cat. 122.
- Paris, Orangerie, "Cézanne," 1936, cat. 122, pl. 39.
- Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, 1936, cat. 72.
- New York, Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, 1937, cat. 2.
- Paris, Independents, 1939, cat. 33.
- Musée de Lyon, "Cézanne," 1939, cat. 49, pl. XVI.
- London, Tate Gallery, "Paul Cézanne," 1946, cat. 18; also traveled to Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery; and Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery.
- Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," February 27-March 28, 1971, cat. 41; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago; and Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts.
- College Park, Md, University of Maryland Art Gallery, "From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the 19th Century," October 26, 1977-May 14, 1978; also traveled to Louisville, Ky., the J.B. Speed Museum of Art; and Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
- Kunsthalle Tubingen, "Paul Cézanne," October 14- December 31, 1978.
- Kunsthalle Tubingen, "Cézanne Aquarelle-Austellung," 1981-1982, cat. 28.
Literature
Published references
- Georges Rivière, Le Maître Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1923), p. 215.
- Elie Faure, Collection des Maîtres, Cézanne (Paris, 1936), no. 12 (ill.).
- Gino Severini, "Cézanne," Emporium, 84 (October 1936), p. 197 (ill.).
- Lionello Venturi, Cézanne (Paris, 1936), no. 914 (ill.).
- Fritz Novotny, Paul Cézanne (Vienna, 1938), p. 203, no. 84.
- Lionello Venturi, Paul Cézanne Watercolors (Oxford, 1943), pp. 27 and 29, pl. 20.
- Ellen Johnson, "Cézanne and a Pine Tree," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21 (Fall 1963), p. 22, fig. 7.
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1963-1964), p. 21.
- Frank Elgar, Cézanne (Paris, 1968), p. 249 (ill.).
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 163 (ill.).
- A. Barksaya, Paul Cézanne (Leningrad, 1975), p. 172, (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, II (Chicago, 1979), no. 1C2.
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