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Paul Cézanne

Aix-en-Provence, 1839 - Aix-en-Provence, 1906

The Bridge and Dam at Pontoise (Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise)

Date	1881
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	59.1 x 72.1
Standard ref.	Venturi 316; Rewald 500
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.2012-0001

Provenance

Julien François Tanguy, Paris (sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 June 1894, lot 10, «Le Pont»); Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Germaine Seligmann and M. Knoedler & Co., New York (September 1935); Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York (20 September 1935); M. Knoedler & Co., New York (4 March 1937); Roland Baläy, New York (20 December 1937); Mr. and Mrs. Wesson Seyburn, Michigan (by March 1955); Private Collection; Christie's New York, 6 November 2008, lot 27; Private Collection, London; Purchased by the NMWA, 2012.

Exhibition History

1914: Cézanne, Bernheim-Jeune, 0 1914 - 0 1914, cat. no. 14.
1936: Cézanne and Gauguin, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, 1 November 1936 - 13 December 1936, cat. no. 22.
1937: Los Angeles Art Association, 0 1937 - 0 1937, n. n.
1937: Paul Cézanne, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1 September 1937 - 4 October 1937, cat. no. 8, repr.
1938: Cézanne, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 28 March 1938 - 19 April 1938, cat. no. 11.
2005: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, 1865 - 1885, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 26 June 2005 - 12 September 2005, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 20 October 2005 - 16 January 2006, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 27 February - 28 May 2006, cat. no. 87, col. repr.
2013: Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 10, col. repr.
2015: Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone (Kanagawa), 4 April 2015 - 27 September 2015, cat. no. 13, col. repr.
2021: National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y3_35 | T3_11
2022: In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 59
2023: La Révolution Cubiste: Exposition de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo, 3 October 2023 - 28 January 2024, cat. no. 2
2024: Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024

Bibliography

1914: Cézanne (exh. cat). Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Paris, 1914, p. 68, pl. XXXI.
1919: L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art autrefois. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, p. 89, pl. 20.
1923: Rivière, Georges. Le maître Paul Cézanne. Paris, 1923, p. 209.
1925: Arishima, Ikuma. Cézanne. Tokyo, Ars, 1925, pl. 61. (Ars Bijutsu Sosho, [1])
1936: Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: son art, son œuvre. vol. 1, Paris, 1936, p. 133, no. 316. repr.; vol. 2, pl. 85.
1938: Frankfurter, Alfred, M. Cézanne: intimate exhibition, twenty-one paintings shown for the benefit of Hope Farm. Art News Annual. 26 March 1938, pp. 11-17, 30, repr.
1962: Reff, Theodore. Cézanne's Constructive stroke. The Art Quarterly. vol. 25, no. 3, Autumn 1962, pp. 214-227.
1972: Orienti, Sandra. The Complete Paintings of Cézanne. New York, 1972, p. 101, no. 324, repr.
1996: Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue raisonné. vol. 1. New York, 1996, p. 334, no. 500, repr.; vol. 2, p.161.
1996: White, Barbara. Impressionists Side by Side. New York, 1996, p. 120, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 95, col. repr.
2013: MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 10, col. repr.
2014: Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, Murakami, Hiroya. New Acquisitions. pp. 8-11, List of New Acquisitions. p. 59, repr.
2015: Cézanne: pioneer of modern art (exh. cat.). Pola Museum of Art, ed., Hakone(Kanagawa), Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015, pp. 58-59, 151, 153, cat. no. 13, col. repr.
2021: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 159, 184, cat. no. Y3_35 | T3_11, col. repr.
2022: In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 130, 259, cat. no. 59, col. repr.
2023: La Révolution Cubiste: Exposition de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Paris (exh. cat.). Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo; Kyoto City Museum of Art(Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art); Nikkei Inc., eds. Tokyo, Nikkei Inc., 2023, pp. 30, 325, cat. no, 2
2024: Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 62, 302, col. repr.

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