Paul Cézanne
The Mont de Cengle
1904/06
Le Mont de Cengle
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
Rewald 928
John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., New York 1996. See also: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne, An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, www.cezannecatalogue.com
Provenance
1Ambroise Vollard Paris Rewald no. 928, and AStEGB, Invoice from Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 June 1951, for 6 paintings, including Cézanne, Mont de Cengle.
2The estate of Ambroise Vollard Paris Rewald no. 928.
3Art trade Paris • by 1950 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, Box 41, Folder 24, Correspondence between Henriette Gomès, Paris, and Germain Seligman, New York, 8 September 1950–22 November 1950, in particular Letter from Gomès to Seligman of 25 September 1950, stating that the painting belonged to a Paris art dealer who had bought it from [Robert] de Galea [son of Vollard's companion, Mme de Galea].
4Germain Seligman New York • 1950–1951 Acquired from the above, through the medium of Henriette Gomès, Paris, on 17 October 1950 for $ 15.000, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, Box 286, Folder 1, Bound Stock Lists, 1950, pp. [1]06–107.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 5 July 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 34.000, Invoice as above n. (1); AStEGB, Letter from O. A. Liechti, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, 5 July 1951, confirming receipt of the full amount for the 6 paintings, invoiced 22 June 1951.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 13
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., New York 1996. See also: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne, An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, www.cezannecatalogue.com
Exhibitions
1954An Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • Tate Gallery, London • 1954 no. 63.
1954Paul Cézanne, 28 Malerier Kunstnerforbundet • Oslo • 1954 no. 28.
1956Paul Cézanne 1839–1906 Kunsthaus Zurich • 1956 no. 86.
1956Paul Cézanne 1839–1906 Gemeentemuseum • The Hague • 1956 no. 35.
1956Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne Pavillon de Vendôme • Aix-en-Provence • 1956 no. 64.
1956Cézanne Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1956 no. 164.
1956Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Kunsthaus Lempertz) • Cologne • 1956–57 no. 32.
1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 230.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 23.
2000Cézanne, Vollendet, Unvollendet Kunstforum, Vienna; Kunsthaus Zurich • 2000 no. 143.
2006Cézanne in Provence (Cézanne en Provence) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence • 2006 no. 138 (exhibited in Aix-en-Provence only).
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 13.
2013Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900 Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2013–14 no. 20.
2017Paul Cézanne, Le Chant de la terre Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2017 no. 60.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 49.
References
1936Lionello Venturi Cézanne, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1936 • vol. 1 • Texte, no. 483, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 147 (top right).
1970Alfonso Gatto • Sandra Orienti L'opera completa di Cézanne Milan • 1970 • no. 663 (ill.; 21979; English edition: Ian Dunlop, Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Cézanne, Middlesex & New York 1970; 21972; 31985 • German edition: Oskar Bätschmann, Sandra Orienti, Das Gesamtwerk von Cézanne, Lucerne etc. 1970 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Cézanne, Barcelona 1970; 21977 • French edition: Sandra Orienti, Gaëtan Picon, Tout l'œuvre peint de Cézanne, Paris 1975; 21995).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 56 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 43 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1995Walter Feilchenfeldt «Cézanne's Collectors, From Zola to Annenberg» in Cézanne (exh. cat.) • Philadelphia Museum of Art etc. • 1995–96 • p. 578 (French edition: Paul Cézanne, Une rétrospective, Grand Palais, Paris • German edition: Walter Feilchenfeldt, «Cézannes Sammler, Von Zola bis Annenberg», in «By Appointment Only», Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und van Gogh, Wädenswil 2005, pp. 194, 268 [ill.]).
1996John Rewald The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné London & New York • 1996 • vol. 1 • no. 928; vol. 2, fig. 928.
1996Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix, Hommage à John Rewald Paris • 1996 • p. 149 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue • vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 115 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Richard Shiff «Mark, Motif, Materiality, The Cézanne Effect in the Twentieth Century» in Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, An Anthology Mary Tompkins Lewis (ed.) • Berkeley etc. • 2007 • p. 305, fig. 13.1.
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 197 (ill.).