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Montagne Sainte Victoire
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
Aix-en-Provence - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
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Montagne Sainte-Victoire
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<p>After 1885 the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, near his home in Aix-en-Provence, became Cézanne’s favourite landscape motif. He painted it many times from different positions and under different light conditions. This view, which shows the mountain with a hooked outline, was painted from a steeply-terraced slope above his studio. ‘He began with the shadows and with a touch, which he covered with a second more extensive touch, then with a third, until all these tints, forming a mesh, both coloured and modelled the object’, the artist Emile Bernard later recalled.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2008</em></p>
paper unique watercolour graphite
29 January 2006 – 15 September 2006
2006-09-15
5 June 2006 – 15 September 2006
2006-09-15
2006-06-05
Collection Jean Planque Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence, France)
2006-01-29
Cézanne in Provence
Loan-out
4 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
4 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
2006-10-04
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2006-10-04
Paul Cézanne Centenary
Loan-out
20 March 2008 – 8 March 2010
2010-03-08
20 March 2008 – 8 March 2010
2010-03-08
2008-03-20
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2008-03-20
Cubist Drawings
Collection based display
22 October 2011 – 26 February 2012
2012-02-26
22 October 2011 – 26 February 2012
2012-02-26
2011-10-22
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
2011-10-22
Paul Cézanne Retrospective
Loan-out
22 March 2013 – 23 June 2013
2013-06-23
22 March 2013 – 7 July 2013
2013-07-07
2013-03-22
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2013-03-22
Tracing the Century
Loan-out
4 February 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
4 February 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
2014-02-04
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
2014-02-04
Cézanne Site / Non-site
Loan-out
27 October 2017 – 11 February 2018
2018-02-11
27 October 2017 – 11 February 2018
2018-02-11
2017-10-27
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2017-10-27
Cézanne: Metamorphoses
Loan-out
6 June 2021 – 26 September 2021
2021-09-26
6 June 2021 – 26 September 2021
2021-09-26
2021-06-06
Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
2021-06-06
Paul Cézanne
Loan-out
15 May 2022 – 5 September 2022
2022-09-05
15 May 2022 – 5 September 2022
2022-09-05
2022-05-15
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
http://www.artic.edu/aic
2022-05-15
Paul Cézanne
Loan-out
5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023
2023-03-12
15 May 2022 – 5 September 2022
2022-09-05
2022-05-15
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
http://www.artic.edu/aic
5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023
2023-03-12
2022-10-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2022-10-05
The EY Exhibition: Cezanne
Exhibition
Montagne Sainte Victoire
support: 362 × 549 mm
frame: 603 × 772 × 22 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p>After 1885 the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, near his home in Aix-en-Provence, became Cézanne’s favourite landscape motif. He painted it many times from different positions and under different light conditions. This view, which shows the mountain with a hooked outline, was painted from a steeply-terraced slope above his studio. ‘He began with the shadows and with a touch, which he covered with a second more extensive touch, then with a third, until all these tints, forming a mesh, both coloured and modelled the object’, the artist Emile Bernard later recalled.
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<p><b>Paul Cézanne</b><span> 1839-1906 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/cezanne-montagne-sainte-victoire-n05303" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05303</span></a> </span><b>La Montagne Sainte-Victoire</b><span> (The Montagne Sainte-Victoire) 1905-6 </span>
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<br/><span>Watercolour on paper, 14 1/4 x 21 5/8 (36 x 55)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Galerie Pierre, Paris (probably among a group of Cézanne watercolours purchased from Vollard </span><i>c</i><span>.1932); with Charles Montag, Lausanne; with Pierre Matisse, New York, 1934; with Dalzell Hatfield, Los Angeles, 1936; Sir Hugh Walpole, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Hugh Walpole's Collection</i><span>, French Gallery, London, May-June 1937 (12); </span><i>Homage to Paul Cézanne</i><span>, Wildenstein Gallery, London, July 1939 (68, repr.); </span><i>The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (23); </span><i>A Selection from the Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, CEMA touring exhibition, September 1942-September 1943 (8); </span><i>Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours</i><span>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1946 (19); Arts Council touring exhibition, May-August 1946 (19); </span><i>Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne</i><span>, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, September-November 1973 (99, repr.); Hayward Gallery, London, November-December 1973 (99, repr.); </span><i>Cézanne</i><span>, Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, March-May 1974 (82, repr.); Kyoto Museum, June-July 1974 (82, repr.); Cultural Centre, Fukuoka, July-August 1974 (82, repr.); </span><i>Cézanne: Les Dernières Années (1895-1906)</i><span>, Grand Palais, Paris, April-July 1978 (94, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Cézanne: son Art - son Oeuvre</i><span>
(Paris 1936), No.1030, Vol.1, p.268, repr. Vol.2, pl.304 (dated 1900-6); Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Paul Cézanne Water Colours</i><span> (London 1943), p.51, repr. in colour as frontispiece</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Georg Schmidt, </span><i>Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne</i><span>
(Basle 1952), pl.18 in colour </span>
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<p><span>The Montagne Sainte-Victoire, near Aix-en-Provence, became after 1885 Cézanne's favourite <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> motif and he painted it many times from different positions. The present view, which shows the mountain with a hooked outline, was painted from Les Lauves, a steeply-terraced slope above the studio which Cézanne occupied from 1902 up to his death in 1906. </span>
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<p><span>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> is closely related to one of his last oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the Sainte-Victoire (Venturi No.803), now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and may have been done as a study for it. Lawrence Gowing has suggested that this oil painting was the one on which Cézanne was working when Maurice Denis and K.-X. Roussel visited him at Aix towards the end of January 1906, on the grounds that it appears on his easel in a picture by Denis 'The Visit to Cézanne' painted at this time and can also be seen in a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of Cézanne taken by Roussel. However according to A. Barskaya, </span><i>Paul Cézanne</i><span>
(Leningrad, London and Wellingborough 1976), pp.190-1, the stretcher of this picture formerly had a label 'Exposition 1905'. This could only refer to the Salon d'Automne of 10 October-25 November 1905, in which Cézanne was represented by ten works, including one called 'Landscape in Provence'. The painting which appears in the picture by Denis and in Roussel's photograph cannot be seen clearly enough to be identified beyond doubt. But in any case both the Pushkin Museum oil and this watercolour must almost certainly have been painted either in 1905 or 1906. </span>
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<p><span>A revealing note on Cézanne's method of painting in watercolour was made by Emile Bernard, who visited Cézanne in February-March 1904, when he watched him at work on a watercolour of the Sainte-Victoire. 'His method was strange, entirely different from the usual practices and of an extreme complexity. He began with the shadows and with a touch, which he covered with a second more extensive touch, then with a third, until all these tints, forming a mesh, both coloured and modelled the object'. (E. Bernard, </span><i>Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne</i><span>, Paris 1912, p.26). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.107-8, reproduced p.107</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
Aix-en-Provence - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France landscape Montagne Sainte-Victoire mountain natural features (non-UK) places wooded