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About the Artwork
During the last 20 years of his life, Cezanne repeatedly painted Mount Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. Cezanne painted this view from life at one of his favorite sites, a small road that led from Aix eastward toward Mount Sainte-Victoire. He set up his easel at the edge of the road where he could see two umbrella pines and the mountain towering over the scene. A branch of one of the pines extends from the left of the canvas across the sky, echoing the slope of the mountain, linking the near and the far.
Provenance
October 22, 1906–March 11, 1907: Estate of Paul Cezanne March 11, 1907: Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939] Paris, France (Purchase from the Estate of Paul Cezanne). 1922: Bernheim-Jeune [sale by Rosenberg Gallery] Galerie Barbazanges, Paris France 1923: Auguste Pellerin [1853-1929], Paris, France 1924: Alphonse Kann [1870-1948] Saint-Germain-en Laye, Paris, France. (Purchase from Auguste Pellerin) 1926–1934?: (Reinhardt Galleries, New York, NY) By 1934: Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), Paris 1934–1939: Ms. Juliette "Domenica" Guillaume (widow of Paul Guillaume) February 1939: Valentine (Dudensing) Gallery, New York, NY February 20, 1939-1957: Leonard C. Hanna Jr [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH 1958: Leonard C. Hanna [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1958–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Loan Exhibition: Cezanne. Wildenstein & Co. (organizer) (November 5-December 5, 1959). Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960). Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (January 24-March 7, 1965); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 28-May 16, 1965); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 14-August 22, 1965). Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). Cézanne: The Late Work. The Museum of Modern Art (organizer) (October 7, 1977-January 3, 1978). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). Sainte-Victoire, Cézanne 1990. Musée Granet, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France (organizer) (June 15-September 2, 1990). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Cézanne in Provence. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 29-May 7, 2006); Musée Granet, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France (June 5-September 15, 2006). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Cézanne Site/Non-Site. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (February 4-May 18, 2014).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- c. 1904
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 87.5 x 106.5 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 41 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm (28 7/16 x 36 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1958.21
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