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The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque
Paul Cezanne · c. 1885
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris, c. 1899 [according to New York 2006–7]; sold to Cornelis Hoogendijk (died 1911), Amsterdam, possibly in May 1899 [according to New York 2006–7, see also Musée d’Orsay, Fonds Vollard, MS 421 (4,3) fol 31, May 17, 1899, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his heirs, on deposit at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam [see Henkels 1993]; sold in shares to Paul Rosenberg, Jos Hessel, and Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1920 [according to New York 2006–7]; sold through Jos Hessel to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, June 12, 1920 [see purchase receipt, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Moderne Kunst Kring, Oct. 6–Nov. 5, 1911, no cat. no.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, Nov. 1929, cat. 18 (ill.), as Landscape at Estaque.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 309 (ill.), as L’Estaque, c. 1886–8.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 293, as L’Estaque, c. 1886–8.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Cézanne, Nov. 10–Dec. 10, 1934, cat. 26, as L’Estaque.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, June 1942, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings; A Loan Exhibition, Feb. 7–Mar. 16, 1952, cat. 50 (ill.), as L’Estaque, 1886–90; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 4–May 18, 1952.
- Seattle World’s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, Apr. 21–Sept. 4, 1962, cat. 50 (ill.), as The Gulf of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque, 1886–90.
- Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, Feb. 27–Mar. 28, 1971, cat. 21 (ill.), as The Gulf of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque, c. 1891; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17––May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22–Aug. 25, 1974, no cat.
- Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27––Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 35 (ill.), as Le Golfe de Marseilles vu de L’Estaque, 1886–90.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 129 (ill.), as 1886–90 ; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, as L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
Literature
Published references
- F. Jourdain, Cézanne (Paris, 1914), pl. 42.
- J. Gasquet, “Ce qu’il m’a dit…le motif,” L’Amour de l’Art 1, 8 (December 1920), p. 263 (ill.).
- A. Fontainas and L. Vauxcelles, Histoire générale de l’art français (Paris, 1922), p. 235.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Poussin and Cézanne,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 24 (December 1930), pp. 114-117 (ill.).
- Clarence Bulliet, Art Masterpieces vol. 1 (Chicago, 1933), p. 91.
- Clarence Bulliet, Significant Moderns and Their Pictures (New York, 1936), pl. 14.
- John Rewald in Amour de l’Art (May 1936), fig. 105.
- Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: son art – son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), vol. 1, no. 493, vol. 2, pl. 115.
- Bernard Dorival, Cézanne (New York, 1948), pl. 77.
- Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art (Chciago, 1937), p. 106 (ill.).
- Bernard Dorival, Cézanne (New York, 1948), p. 76 (ill.).
- H. F. MacKenzie, Masterpieces of Painting, XIX Century, in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1946), pp. 26-27 (ill.).
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