Paul Cézanne
Landscape
ca. 1879
Paysage
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Rewald 412
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. 412.
2Brunner Rewald no. 412.
3Bernheim Jeune & Cie. Paris • 1923/24 Rewald no. 412; Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1924
4Bernheim Jeune & Cie. Lucerne • 1926/27 According to an autobiography, written by Berthold Nothmann in 1936, the purchase of the painting was made from the Lucerne branch of the Paris dealer, Courtesy Leo Back Institute, New York, Berthold Nothmann, Meine Lebenserinnerungen, Wannsee, November 1936, typescript, p. 60.
5Berthold Nothmann Düsseldorf, Berlin & London • 1926/27–[d.] 1942 Acquired from the above, Lebenserinnerungen as above, n. (4); the Lucerne branch of Bernheim Jeune & Cie. extisted from July 1926 to February 1927, State Archives Lucerne, A 1044/4718, Registration and Cancellation of Bernheim Jeune & Cie., succursale de Lucerne, in the Registry of Commerce, Lucerne, 6 July 1926, and 26 February 1927 respectively.
6Martha Nothmann London & Stamford, N.Y. • 1942 until 1947 Widow of the above; Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur, Letter from Mrs. Martha Nothmann, Stamford N.Y., to Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, 10 August 1947, believes [mistakenly] that the Cézanne landscape she and her late husband had been able to take with them, along with other paintings from their collection, when they had to leave Germany in 1939, is now with Reinhart.
7Art trade New York • 1947 Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur, Letter from Dr. Fritz Nathan, Dayton (Ohio), 1 June 1947, to Dr. h.c. Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, regarding the Cézanne Landscape he is negotiating in New York that had formerly been with Nothmann; Archive Paul Cassirer/Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, Letter from Dr. Fritz Nathan, New York, to Walter Feilchenfeldt (Sen.), Zurich, 19 June 1947, referring to the Cézanne Landscape he has just bought «von Frau Nothmann» (from Mrs. Nothmann); Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Box 136, Folder 7, P28-30, Letter from Georges Seligmann, New York, to Germain Seligmann, Paris, 23 June 1947, referring to the Cézanne Landscape which Fritz Nathan has just bought and that had been offered to them «from the Nothmann collection».
8Dr. Fritz Nathan St. Gall • 1947 AStEGB, Inventory Card for Cézanne, Paysage.
9Emil Bührle Zurich • 20 September 1947 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 25.000, State Archives Zurich, Z 418.789, Taxation 1947 Emil Bührle-Schalk, («Steuerpflichtige Fahrhabe») List of paintings purchased between November 1945 and January 1948: Payment of CHF 25.000 to Dr. Nathan, St. Gall, on 20 September 1947.
10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich 1960 Inv. 12
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
1949Impressionisten, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen Kunsthalle Basel • 1949 not in catalogue.
1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 26.
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 • 1965 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. 15.
2019Paula Modersohn-Becker, Aufbruch in die ModerneBuchheim Museum • Bernried • 2019–20 p. 72.
References
1918Julius Meier-Graefe Cézanne und sein Kreis, Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte Munich • 1918 • p. 184 (ill.; 21920; 31920; 41922, p. 220 [ill.]).
1924Adolphe Tabarant «Cézanne d'après ses historiens» in Bulletin de la vie artistique (5) • 1924 • p. 111 (ill.).
1925Adolphe Tabarant «Quelque propos sur Cézanne» in Bulletin de la vie artistique(6) • 1925 • p. 118 (ill.).
1927Julius Meier-Graefe Cézanne London & New York • 1927.
1936Lionello Venturi Cézanne, Son art, son oeuvre Paris • 1936 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 306, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 82 (bottom right).
1953Doris Wild «Private Kunstsammlungen in der Schweiz, Die Sammlung Emil Bührle in Zürich» in Das Kunstwerk (7) • no. 6 • 1953 • p. 28.
1970Alfonso Gatto • Sandra Orienti L'opera completa di Cézanne Milan • 1970 • no. 312 (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. 52 (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 Feilchenfeld, «Cézannes Sammler, Von Zola bis Annenberg» in: «By Appointment Only», Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und van Gogh, Wädenswil 2005, p. 194).
1996John Rewald The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné London & New York • 1996 • vol. 1, no. 412; vol. 2, fig. 412.
2004Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 111 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
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. 153 (ill.).