The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue
1890
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue, 1890. Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906). Oil on fabric; framed: 95.5 x 113 x 7 cm (37 5/8 x 44 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 65.6 x 81.5 cm (25 13/16 x 32 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The James W. Corrigan Memorial 1936.19 Cézanne’s method of compressing space and simplifying forms into flattened, geometric shapes provided the foundation for both Fauvism and Cubism.
- Maker/Artist
- Cézanne, Paul
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 95.5 x 113 x 7 cm (37 5/8 x 44 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.6 x 81.5 cm (25 13/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1936.19
- Credit Line
- The James W. Corrigan Memorial
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Cézanne and Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Paul Cézanne, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, A Thousand Years of Landscape: East and West, French Paintings of the 19th Century, Cézanne, Springtime of Impressionism, French Impressionists, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape, Cézanne, Right Under the Sun: Painting in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920), Cézanne in Provence, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lend-Back: Painting the Modern Garden, <em>Fifty Years of French Art</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1926)., <em>Inaugural Exhibition</em>. Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (1926)., <em>Paintings by Paul Cézanne 1839-1906</em>. Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (1928)., <em>The Museum of Modern Art First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh</em>.<br>Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1929)., <em>A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture.</em> Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1934).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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