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 360
Château Noir
1903–04
Alternate titles: Le Château Noir; Vue du Château-Noir
Rewald (940): 1903–04; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (794): 1904–6
Oil on canvas
29 x 36 11/16 in. (73.6 x 93.2 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 365, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1901
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 111, pl. XXX, as Château Noir, lent by Rosenberg; exhibited for the first time.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 96, as Le Château Noir, lent anonymously.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 38, as Château Noir.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 34, ill., as Le Château Noir, 1904, lent by F. S.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 22, ill., (dated 1904), lent by F.S.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 23, ill. lent by Levy.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from New York Private Collections, July 2–September 22, 1946, no number, p. 6.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 117, ill. lent by Levy. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no number, lent by Levy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 27, as Le Château Noir, lent by Dr. and Mrs. David M. Levy.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Works of Art: Given or Promised, October 8–November 9, 1958, no number, ill., p. 19.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 17, lent by Dr. and Mrs. David M. Levy.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Adele R. Levy Collection: Memorial Exhibition, June 9–July 16, 1961, listed p. 1, ill., on cover, as Le Château Noir.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 51, pl. 60. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 52, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 29, ill., (dated 1902–04), as Le Château Noir, lent by Museum of Modern Art.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 29, fig. 7.
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, The Great Collections 1: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, From Cézanne to Pollock, October 17, 1992–January 10, 1993, pp. 48-49 and 169, ill., as Le Château Noir, 1904-06.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 95, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 48, ill. 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. 99, ill., (dated 1900–04), shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), p. 20, no. 9.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 413, fig. 31.
p. 221.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 73, as Vue du Château-Noir.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 794, ill. vol. II, as Le Château Noir.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56, as Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 10.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 44, ill.
Bagarry, Adrien-Pierre. "Le centenaire de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 8, ill., as Le Château Noir, 1904, F. S. collection.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 186, listed (analysis p. 391).
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 11, ill.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Works of Art: Given or Promised." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 26, no. 1 (Autumn 1958), p. 19, ill.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, 1960." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 28, No. 2/4 (1961), p. 9, ill., as Château Noir.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 46, with comments.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 531, ill. p. 15.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 102, commentary pp. 271–72.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 147.
Perl, Jed. "Van Gogh at the Met." The New Criterion vol. 3, no. 4 (December 1984), p. 33, as Le Château Noir.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 207, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 84-5.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 133.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 110, fig. 81, with photographs of the motif, figs. 79 and 80, as Le Château Noir.
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. 940, ill. vol. 2, as Château Noir.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Cézanne and the Unfinished." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 33, fig. 6, as Château Noir.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 29, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 111, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 110, as Château Noir.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 165, ill.
Nelson, B.R. "The portrayal of reflective life in action in painting: discovery of the inner life of sensory perception in watercolours by Turner and oil paintings by Cézanne." In Forms of Enlightenment in Art. Cambridge, England: Open Angle Books, 2010, pp. 181-185, as Château Noir.
Lanchner, Carolyn. 10 Works by Paul Cézanne in the Museum of Modern Art Collection. MoMA Artists Series. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 38–42.
Kropmanns, Peter. "A Trophy of Conquering Love: Cézanne and Poussin." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 36, p. 64 (detail), as Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p.185, fig. 70c, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 184, figs. 70a and 70b, as Château Noir.
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 132, ill.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 285 fig. 1.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176.
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 269, listed and ill. (also p. 36, fig. 5).
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne et Monet." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 4.
Swinbourne, Anna. "L'Estaque; Fontainebleau; Bibémus; Château Noir." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 131, fig. 81, as Château Noir, dated 1903–04.
Record last updated March 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Château Noir, 1903–04 (FWN 360)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=913 (accessed on November 24, 2024).
