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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 276
La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges
1890–92
Alternate titles: Die rote Erde; Die Rote Erde (La plaine de bellevue); Häuser im Grünen; Hügellandschaft; La plaine de Bellevue; La Plaine de Bellevue; also known as Les Terres rouges; La terre rouge; Landschaft; Les terres rouges; Les Terres-Rouges (environs d'Aix); Rote Erde; Terre rouge; The Bellevue Plain
Rewald (716): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (450): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
32 x 39 5/8 in. (81.3 x 100.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 137, pl. 20, as Häuser im Grünen, lent by Wolde.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 71, as Landschaft, lent by Frau Adele Wolde.
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 3, as Hügellandschaft, lent by Frau Adele Wolde.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der modernen Malerei aus Bremischen Privatbesitz, May 15–June 12, 1918, no. 3, as Die rote Erde, lent by Adele Wolde.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 28, as Rote Erde, lent by Wolde.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, [Ausstellung von Franzosen und Neuerwerbungen in der Bremer Kunsthalle], Summer 1922, as Rote Erde.
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Century of French Painting, May 1927, no. 35, as Les terres rouges.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Manet's masterpiece "Le Vieux musicien" and other important paintings by Cézanne, ..., May 17–?, 1927, as La terre rouge.
Galerie Barbazanges - Hodebert successeur, Paris, Tableaux des maîtres du XIXe et XXe siècle, December 9–31, 1927, no. 35.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Cent Ans de peinture française, April 16–May 5, 1928, Information from Bignou Albums, The Frick Collection, New York.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Landscape in French Painting: XIX–XX Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 24, as Les Terres-Rouges (environs d'Aix).
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, p. 170, as Les terres rouges.
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, color plate opposite p. 178.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne and his Circle: Paul Cézanne." In Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of Aesthetics. vol. I, translated by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. London: Heinemann, 1908, p. 270, as Les terres rouges.
E.[mil] W.[aldmann]. "Ausstellungen: Bremen." Kunst und Künstler 16, no. 9 (1918), p. 357.
Waldmann, Emil. "Bremer Privatsammlungen." Kunst und Künstler 17, no. 5 (1919), p. 180, as Terre rouge.
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 133, as Landschaft.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 56, as Häuser im Grünen.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXX.
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [17], ill., as Les terres rouges, 1883.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 450, ill. vol. II, as La plaine de Bellevue.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 111, p. 229, ill. (analysis pp. 357–60).
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pp. 34–35, pl. 115.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part I – Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978), p. 6, pl. 80.
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. 716, ill. vol. 2 and p. 54, ill. vol. 1, as La plaine de Bellevue.
Hansen, Dorothee. "'… Die solide Modernität': Bremer Sammler nach der Jahrhundertwende: Heymel, Biermann, Wolde." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pp. 197-198, listed p. 207.
Die Kunsthalle Bremen und ihre Stifter, Johann Georg Wolde und Adele Wolde - ein Bremer Sammlerpaar. Bremen: Bremen Kunsthalle, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, no. 1, as Die Rote Erde (La plaine de bellevue).
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, fig. 8, as La Plaine de Bellevue; also known as Les Terres rouges.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 43, ill. p. 38, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 137, p. 555.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, listed p. 93.
Mettler, Kurt. Tagebücher 1927–1930. Zurich: Limmat Verlag, 2019, p. 983, ill., as La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 28, pp. 146–57, as The Bellevue Plain (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
Notes
The same houses appear in FWN233 and FWN278.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges, 1890–92 (FWN 276)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=694 (accessed on November 23, 2024).
