The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 155
La Baie de l'Estaque
1879–83
Alternate titles: L'Estaque; La Montagne de l'Estaque; The Bay; The Bay of L'Estaque
Rewald (444): 1879–83; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (489): 1886–90; Ratcliffe: possibly 1888; Machotka et al: 1881–82
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 11/16 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)
lower left: traces of a blue-green signature
Vollard archives: photo no. [193] and 265, Annotated: Fayet
Provenance
Exhibition History
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 8, as L'Estaque, lent by Galeries Druet.
Hôtel de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, Paris, Première exposition de collectionneurs au profit de la Société des amis de Luxembourg, March 10–April 10, 1924, no. 183, as L'Estaque, lent by Pacquement.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2872, as L'Estaque, lent by Pacquement.
Galerie Bernier, Paris, Mers et plages de Delacroix à nos jours, May 25–June 13, 1929, no. 14.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 40, lent by Tyson.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 26.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 9, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 212, p. 530, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Published References
Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 38, as The Bay, Druet collection.
Waldemar-George. "Première exposition de collectionneurs." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 52, as L'Estaque.
"Du monde entier: Hors d'Europe." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 15 (April 14, 1933), p. 7, ill., as L'Estaque.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 489, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne de l'Estaque.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 110.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 106, pl. XXVII (with photograph of the motif).
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 86, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 33, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 59, no. 280 (Winter 1964), p. 77, ill.
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 124, fig. 99, with photograph of the motif, fig. 98, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 444, ill. vol. 2, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Cendo, Nicolas. "A Dimension Known as Painting, L'Estaque, 1870–1910." In Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920). Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, fig. 1, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 17, ill., with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 16, as La Baie de l'Estaque.
Goldin, Marco. "Dal viaggio verso Sud." In Mediterraneo. Da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, 2010. Treviso: Linea d'Ombra, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, ill.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 154, ill.
Hale, Charlotte. "A Template for Experimentation." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, fig. 24, as The Bay of L'Estaque.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 94, fig. 28a, with color photo of motif, fig. 28b, as La Baie de l'Estaque, dated 1881–82.
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, ill. pp. 91 (detail), 115.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 134, ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 88 (discussion p. 79), as La Baie de l'Estaque, with contemporary photo of motif, fig. 89.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 145, ill.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 52, as The Bay of L'Estaque, dated 1883–85.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 49.
Record last updated June 8, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Baie de l'Estaque, 1879–83 (FWN 155)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=435 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
