Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

exhibitions Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse , 1938 , no. 18 , p. 8 (with erroneous ownership) Paris, Grand Palais, Catalogue de la 50e exposition: centenaire du Peintre Indépendant Paul Cézanne , March 17 –April 10 , 1939 , no. 42 (with erroneous ownership). London, Paul Cassirer, Paul C é zanne: Watercolours , July 1939 , no. 45 Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Cézanne, Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins , 1953 , Musée de Nice; Musée de Grenoble, no. 37 , lent by Alex Lewyt, New York. (Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8 –September 12 , 1953 . Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15 –October 18 , 1953 ) New York, Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), Cézanne , January 30 –February 18 , 1956 , no. 6 , illustrated, lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alex M. Lewyt New York, Wildenstein & Co., Cézanne , November 5 –December 5 , 1959 , no. 69 , illustrated New York, Knoedler Galleries, Cézanne Watercolors , April 2 – 20 , 1963 , p. 28 – 29 , n. 14 , pl. XII, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alex M. Lewyt, New York Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Cézanne Watercolors , November 10 –December 10 , 1967 , n. 11 , illustrated. Purchased by his father in 1859 , the Jas du Bouffan was a mansion where Cézanne would live and paint. The house stayed in the family until 1899 . The painter would set up an easel in front of the house and paint the farm, the woods and the avenue of chestnut trees, the pond and its statues. Only thirty-six oils and seventeen watercolors were made at the house between 1859 and 1899 .

Our work has a distinctive provenance, having been with the important dealers Ambrose Vollard and later Sam Salz, and well as being part of the collection of Alexander Lewyt who was an American visionary and inventor of the eponymous vacuum cleaner, as well as air conditioners and popcorn poppers. Lewyt’s art collection, some of which was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, included works by Gauguin, Bonnard, Degas, and Van Gogh.

Les Arbes du Jas de Bouffan dénudés , 1885–86 . National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo