Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)

Groupe d'arbres

細節

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
Groupe d'arbres
watercolour and pencil on paper laid down on card
18.7/8 x 12.3/8 in. (47.9 x 31.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1900

來源

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
The Vollard Estate, Paris.
Robert de Galéa, Paris.
Martin Fabiani, Paris.
Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.
Hans Oppenheimer.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Private collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owner.

出版

The Vollard Archives, photograph no. 159.
J. Rewald, The Watercolours of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue raisonné, London, 1983, p. 215 (illustrated no. 517).

展覽

Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections Suisses de Manet à Picasso, May-Oct. 1964, no. 102 (illustrated). Kunsthalle Tbingen, Jan.-March 1982, no. 123 (illustrated opposite no. 71); this exhibition later travelled to the Kunsthaus Zurich, April-May 1982.

拍品專文

John Rewald (op. cit., p. 215) identified the subject of Groupe d'arbres with Cézanne's paysage de l'âme - the garrigue (heath) on the slopes of the Sainte Victoire, the rich bloom of the Forêt Noire, or the sunlit clearings surrounding the Chemin des Lauves, where the artist kept his studio.

Rewald has words of enraptured praise for this work: 'The pine tree at right is beautifully worked out by means of superimposed washes in the colours of the rainbow, with green prevailing, as it does throughout this landscape. In the lower left foreground appear the blue and grey contours of a rock. The few trees on the top of the slope detach themselves from the sky with a slight semblance of moving forward. The pale, nearly opaque color of the sky suggests infinite remoteness' (ibidem, p. 215).