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PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)
Mur de jardin
oil on canvas
9 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (23.4 x 38.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1867-1868
Provenance
Emile Zola, Médan; Estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9-13 March 1903.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above, March 1937).
Bignou Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1940).
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, January 1943).
By descent from the above to the late owner.
Literature
L. Venturi, Cezanne: Son art, son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. II, p. 330, no. 1513 (illustrated).
H.G. Fell, "Cezannes at Lefevre Gallery," The Connoisseur, July-December 1937, p. 39 (illustrated; dated 1871-1872 and titled Le mur blanc).
"By a Great French 'Modern' - Cezanne," The Illustrated London News, 19 June 1937, no. 5122, vol. 190, p. 1147 (illustrated; dated 1871-1872 and titled Le mur blanc).
J. Adhémar, "Le cabinet de travail de Zola," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1960, vol. 56, no. 6, p. 294, no. 135.
J. Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, vol. II, p. 28, no. 88 (illustrated).
B. Echte and W. Feilchenfeldt, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905, Zurich, 2011, vol. II, p. 506 (illustrated).
W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash, The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.cezannecatalogue.com), no. FWN 47 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Sonderausstellung: Paul Cezanne, April-June 1904 (titled Mauer einer Vorortvilla).
Glasgow, The McLellan Galleries, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, April 1937, no. 11.
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), Cezanne, June 1937, no. 6 (illustrated; dated 1871-1872 and titled Le Mur Blanc).
New York, Bignou Gallery, Inc., The Post-Impressionists, October-November 1940, no. 2 (titled Le Mur Blanc).
New York, Bignou Gallery, Inc., English and French Landscapes by 19th Century French Painters, January-February 1941, no. 2.
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, November 1942, no. 6 (dated 1871-1872).
Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Cezanne, February-March 1947, no. 1 (illustrated).
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Cezanne, September-October 1954, no. 12.