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Pillars of Modernism: Property from a Private European Collection

Paul Cézanne

Maison dans les arbres

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May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

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3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

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Pillars of Modernism: Property from a Private European Collection

Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906


Maison dans les arbres

oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 28 ⅝ in. 92 by 72.7 cm.

Executed circa 1879.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired on 27 March 1911)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (acquired from the above on 27 March 1911)
René and Georgette (née Pellerin) Lecomte, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Private Collection, Neuilly (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, London, 30 November 1992, lot 14 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1914, pl. 45, illustrated
Georges Rivière, Le Maître Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1923, p. 200 (titled Auvers: Maisons et mur de Jardin bordant un chemin and dated 1873)
Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 148, p. 99; vol. II, pl. 39, illustrated (titled Maison à Auvers and dated 1873-75)
Douglas Cooper, “Two Cézanne exhibitions at the Orangerie and the Tate,” The Burlington Magazine, November 1954, p. 349 (dated 1879) 
Robert Rey, “Cézanne,” La Revue des Arts, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1954, p. 72, illustrated 
Lawrence Gowing, “Notes on the Development of Cézanne,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 98, no. 639, June 1956, p. 189 (dated 1879-80)
Douglas Cooper, “Cézanne’s Chronology,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 98, December 1956, p. 449 (dated circa 1879)
Sandra Orienti and Alfonso Gatto, L’Opera completa di Cézanne, Milan, 1970, no. 153, p. 93, illustrated (titled Casa fra alberi a Auvers and dated 1873-75)
John Rewald, “Some Entries for a New Catalogue Raisonné of Cézanne’s Paintings,” Gazette de Beaux-Arts, Paris, November 1975, p. 167
John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New York, 1996, no. 402, p. 268; vol. II, pl. 127, illustrated (titled Maison dans les arbres)
Alain Mothe, et al., Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise, Saint-Ouen-L’Aumône, 2006, p. 41, illustrated in color (titled Maison deans les arbres, Auvers-sur-Oise)
Alain Mothe, Ce Que Voyait Cézanne: Les Paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales, Paris, 2011, p. 41, illustrated in color (titled Maison dans les arbres, Auvers-sur-Oise
Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol. I, Paris, 2020, no. 84, p. 381, illustrated (titled Paysage 
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash. "Maison dans les arbres, c.1879 (FWN 137),"The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonnéhttps://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=397 (accessed on March 14, 2023)
Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’Automne, Salle Cézanne, 1904, no. 12 (titled La Maison du pendu (paysage))
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, 1939, no. 17, pl. VI, illustrated (titled Maison dans les Arbres à Auvers and dated circa 1875)
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Hommage à Cézanne, 1954, no. 29, pl. XIII, illustrated (titled Maison à Auvers and dated circa 1873-74)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, 1983, no. 10, pl. 10, illustrated in color (titled Maison dans les arbres