Mont Sainte-Victoire

between 1904 and 1906

Paul Cézanne French, 1839-1906

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Cézanne often painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a massive limestone mountain located about ten miles from his home in the south of France. The artist suggested distance only by juxtaposing warm and cold colors. He further diminished the sense of spatial depth by depicting the image in patches of color of equal size and intensity. With all portions of the surface equally handled, there is no sense of the time of day or, for that matter, of time passing.

Title Mont Sainte-Victoire

Artwork Date between 1904 and 1906

Artist Paul Cézanne

Life Dates 1839-1906

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 21 7/8 × 18 1/8 inches (55.6 × 46 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 inches × 25 3/16 inches × 3 inches (73 × 64 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.161

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Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France)

(Knoedler and Company, New York, New York, USA)

1933-1970, purchased by R.H. Tannahill (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection. Exh. cat., Knoedler and Co. New York, 1933, no. 14. [dated as 1899]

Venturi, L. Cézanne, et son Oeuvre. Paris, 1936, vol. 1, p. 229; vol. 2 (pl. 52). [dated as 1897]

Goldwater, R. "Cézanne in America." Art News 36, 26 (March 1938) (pl. 154).

Barnes, A. and V. de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York, 1939, pp. 264, 419, no. 166 (ill.).

Cézanne Watercolors. Exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries. New York, 1963, pp. 50-51, no. 52.

Brion-Guerry, H. Cézanne et l'Expression de l' Espace. Paris, 1966, pp. 160-162.

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 50, no.1 (1970): (cover ill.).

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 9, 27, 35 (ill.).

Cummings, F. "Tannahill Tastes." Art News 69, 3 (May 1970): p. 81.

Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, no. 252.

Shiff, R. "Seeing Cézanne." Critical Inquiry 4 (Summer 1978): pp. 769-808 (fig. 8).

Cinco Siglos de Orbas Maestras. Exh. cat., Museo de Jade. San José, 1978, no. 34 (ill.).

Rewald, J. Paul Cézanne, The Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston, 1983, p. 209, no. 499.

Teboul, J. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris, 1988, p. 16, no. 6 (fig. 6).

Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Exh. cat., Musée Granet. Aix-en-Provence, 1990, p. 33 (fig. 3).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 93, 173, 220-221, no. 61 (ill.).

Message 1995. Exh. cat., Municipal Museum of Art. Toyota, 1995, pp. 66, 204-205, no. 18 (ill.).

Machotka, P. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven, 1996, p. 146 (fig. 140).

Rewald, J. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1996, vol. 1, p. 550, no. 938; vol. 2, p. 328 (ill.). [dated 1904-1906]

The Rise of the Art World in America, Knoedler at 150. Exh. cat., Knoedler Company. New York, 1996, p. 21.

Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., The Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 30-31, 138 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art. Yokohoma, 2001, pp. 33, 78, no. 19 (ill.).

Keyes, G. S. "Reconsideration of Late Variants of Cézanne's Theme of Mont Sainte-Victoire." Bulletin of the DIA 77, 1-2: pp. 33-37 (fig. 1).

Hokusai and Japonisme. Exh. cat., The National Museum of Western Art. Tokyo, 2017, p. 273, no. 220.

Borchardt-Hume, Achim, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell, and Natalia Sidlina, eds. Cezanne. Exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago and the Tate. New Haven and London, 2022, pp. 192-193, (ill. cat. no. 125).

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