Turning Road

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Work in the public domain
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Maker


1839-1906

Title

Turning Road

Date of Production

c. 1905

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

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

Object Number

P.1978.PG.61

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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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, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015
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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, Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, 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
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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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