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 196
Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque
c.1885
Alternate titles: L'Estaque; L'Estaque und die Reede von Marseille; Landscape at Estaque; Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque; Paysage à l'Estaque; The Bay of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque; The Gulf of Marseille see from L'Estaque; The Gulf of Marseille, seen from L'Estaque
Rewald (626): c.1885; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (493): 1886–90; Ratcliffe: either November 1883–February 1884 or early 1885
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 x 39 5/8 in. (80.2 x 100.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no number, Hoogendijk collection.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 18, ill., as Landscape at Estaque, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 309, ill., (dated c. 1886–88), lent by Art Institute.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 293, (dated c. 1886–88), as L'Estaque, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 26, (dated c. 1886–88), as L'Estaque, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 50, ill. lent by Chicago. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 21. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 129, ill., as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque, 1886-90, lent by Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 23, 1984–January 6, 1985; Grand Palais, Paris, February 4–April 22, 1985 (L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, see 1985a Paris).
Grand Palais, Paris, L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, February 4–April 22, 1985, no. 129, ill., as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, 1886-90.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 45, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 114, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 20, ill., (dated c. 1885–86). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 48, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 37, fig. 7, pp. 8, 340, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 63, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 197, p. 502, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 79, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. "Ce qu'il m'a dit … Le motif." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 263, as Paysage à l'Estaque.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 235, as Paysage à l'Estaque.
Rich, Daniel C. "Poussin and Cézanne." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24, no. 9 (December 1930), pp. 114–17, ill.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 91.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 14.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 493, ill. vol. II, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Rewald, John. "Sources d'inspiration de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 105 p. 195, as L'Estaque, c. 1878 (with photograph of motif, fig. 102; erroneously listed as belonging to Metropolitan Museum).
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 72, ill. p. 291, as The Gulf of Marseille, seen from L'Estaque.
Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968, p. 35, pl. 13.
D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Necessary Cézanne." Art Gallery 14, no. 6 (April 1971), p. 40, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 9 and pl. 23 (with comments).
Prati, Xavier, ed. L'Estaque au temps des peintres, 1870–1914. Marseille: Association College-quartier, 1985, p. 49, ill.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 94.
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. 626, ill. vol. 2 and p. 57, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle. "Georges Braque. 'Krug und Violine' – der löchrige Grund." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 2.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 21, ill., with contemporary photo of motif, p. 20, as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 210, ill.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), pp. 624-25, fig. 49, as The Gulf of Marseille see from L'Estaque.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 168; vol. 2, p. 123, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Marden: The Almost Perfect Painting." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 502, pl. 197, as The Bay of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 171, fig. 113.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 197, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, fig. 1.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 97, fig. 30b, with color photo of motif, fig. 30a, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Inaga, Shigemi. "Between Revolutionary and Oriental Sage: Paul Cézanne in Japan." Japan review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies 28 (2015:), p. 138, fig. 6.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 15.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 117.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 127 (discussion pp. 109–115), as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque (with photographs of the otif and a diagram identifying the various tile factories in the painting, figs. 128–129).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 189, ill. with a diagram identifying the individual buildings.
Janssen, Hans, and Sjoerd van Faassen. [no title]. In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Record last updated October 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, c.1885 (FWN 196)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=608 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
