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FWN 281
Au bord de l'eau
c.1894
Alternate titles: Arbres et Maisons reflétant dans l'eau; At the Water's Edge; Paysage des bords de la Marne; Pontoise
Rewald (724): 1890–92; Venturi revised: c.1888; Venturi (637): 1888–90
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 54, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Bords de la Marne 1888

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Egisto Fabbri, Florence and Paris (Jan. 11, 1896?)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman, New York (1938);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1972)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Fabbri buys?
1920 Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 22, (dated 1888), as Pontoise, tentative identification, lent by Fabbri.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 9, as Arbres et Maisons reflétant dans l'eau, lent by Fabbri.
1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 14, (dated 1888–90), as Au bord de l'eau.
1940 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 4.
1960 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May 19–June 26, 1960, no. 77, ill.
1961 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 15.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 37.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 102, ill., as Au bord de l'eau. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2007 Florence
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, fig. 29, pp. 104–05, ill., 262, as Au bord de l'eau.
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 42, ill. comments by Judit Geskó.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 637, ill. vol. II, as Au bord de l'eau.
Carlsund 1937b
Carlsund, Otto G. "Fransk Konst i butiken [French Art in galleries]." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XIII, no. 6 (1937), ill. p.197, as Au bord de l'eau.
Frankfurter 1939b
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Intimate Cézanne Centennial at Marie Harriman Gallery." Art News 38 (November 11, 1939), p. 7, ill.
Anonymous 1940
Anonymous. "Noted Works Mark Show at Institute." Detroit Free Press, May 5, 1940, p. 51 (mentioned), as Au bord de l'eau.
Newberry 1940
Newberry, John Stoughton. "The Age of Impressionism and Realism." Art News 38, no. 31 (May 4, 1940), p. 13, ill.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2586, p. 63 ill., as At the Water's Edge.
Kelder 1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 418, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 151, ill.
Rewald 1996
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. 724, ill. vol. 2, as Au bord de l'eau.
Benesch 2000
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54, fig. 19, as Au bord de l'eau.
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264, fig. 29.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 240; vol. 2, p. 161, as Au bord de l'eau.
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 107, ill., as Paysage des bords de la Marne, dated circa 1894.
Machotka 2011a
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 110, as Au bord de l'eau.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 290, 1892–94.
Record last updated October 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Au bord de l'eau, c.1894 (FWN 281)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=702 (accessed on March 28, 2024).