The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue

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The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue

Paul CezanneLinkedCulture matchlcp-345dc2f12ad3

Date
1890
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
115405

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Paul Cezanne painted this composition in three horizontal planes: the azure blue of the sky; the luminous white of the tower and the farmyard buildings; and the burnt-orange shade of the foreground earth, whose color is indicative of the iron-rich soil of Provence. The shimmering greens of Cezanne’s favorite cypress and olive trees are interspersed across the middle ground. The composition is pared down to its essentials, devoid of extraneous detail; it exemplifies his ambition “to make something solid and enduring, like the art in museums.” Cézanne’s method of compressing space and simplifying forms into flattened, geometric shapes provided the foundation for both Fauvism and Cubism.

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Credit line
The James W. Corrigan Memorial
Provenance
1899: Maxime Conil [1822- ?] Aix en Provence, France, brother-in-law of the artist, sold to Ambroise Vollard, December 18, 1899 | 1899-1922: (Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France, January 25, 1922, sold to Ralph M. Coe) | 1922: Ralph M. Coe [1882-1959], Cleveland, OH | 1922-1935: Mrs. Ralph M. Coe [1891-1966], Cleveland, OH, November 7, 1935, to Knoedler & Co.for sale | 1935-1936: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, January 6, 1936, work returned to Mr. Ralph M. Coe) | 1936: Mr. Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1936-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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