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Auvers, Panoramic View

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)LinkedCulture matchlcp-84594e346d8b

Date: 1873–75
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 14556

Paul Cezanne made this work during his first prolonged stay at Auvers, where he was mentored by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro . Cezanne rendered the unusual perspective—looking down onto the rooftops of Auvers and out to the distant countryside—using blocky, energetic patches of color and areas of ragged brushwork that seem unfinished, especially at the lower left and center. These choices, which were radical at the time, mark his attempt to communicate not merely the landscape’s appearance but also the feeling of seeing it and painting it.

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Provenance: Dr. Paul Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise (1828–1909), c. 1873/74 [this and the following information according to New York 1999]; by descent to his son, Paul Gachet (1873–1962); sold by him before 1912. Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [the painting is included in Vollard photographic archives as no. 209; Vollard lent the painting to Paris 1912; see also Rewald 1996;]. Alfred Strolin, Paris and Lausanne, Switzerland, 1912; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, July 7, 1921, lot 7 (ill.), as Auvers-sur-Oise Vue panoramique du village, sold for 65,500 francs [according to Annuaire des Ventes, vol. 3, Paris, 1920/21 and Bulletin de l’Art Ancien et Moderne, vol. 23, no. 672, Aug. 10, 1921]. Hector Brame, Paris [according to Rewald 1996]. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York [stock no. 4703 and no. 11906, based on labels on reverse and Registrar archival card, copy in curatorial file]. Annie S. Coburn (Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn; 1856–1932), Chicago by 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1932.

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