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Turning Road

Maker

(Artists)
1839-1906

Title

Turning Road

Date of Production

c. 1905

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 73 cm (canvas)
Width: 92 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.61

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords






Label Text

This large landscape by Paul Cézanne shows a village seen across a pattern of fields and trees. A winding road leads the viewer from the foreground to the roofs and church steeple in the distance. The unfinished appearance of the canvas may be deliberate. In the same year that he painted this work, Cézanne explained that his use of colour to render light forced him to ‘produce abstract passages that stop me from covering my whole canvas’. Such rejection of academic rules contributed to Cézanne’s posthumous reputation as the ‘father of modernism’.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Acquired 1941 from Sir Kenneth Clark. Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Cezanne. Masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery, KODE, Bergen, Norway, 16/07/2021-10/10/2021

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020

Summer Showcase - Unfinished, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015 ...More

Kenneth Clark : Finding Civilization, Tate Britain, London, 19/05/2014-10/08/2014

Cezanne and Paris, Musée de Luxembourg, Paris, 14/12/2011-11/03/2012

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008

Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998

The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, 12/01/1984-28/02/1984; Kyoto, 03/03/1984-03/04/1984; Osaka, 12/04/1984-08/05/1984; Australia National Gallery, Canberra, 01/06/1984-06/08/1984 ...Less

Literature

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008
cat. no. 10

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Canberra, 1984

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