Paul Cézanne

The House with the Cracked Walls



Paul Cézanne - The House with the Cracked Walls



Paul Cézanne
The House with the Cracked Walls
1892-94
80 x 64.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
R 760


Provenance

the artist (until ca. 1899, sold through Paul Cézanne fils to Vollard)
with Ambroise Vollard, Paris, ca. 1899-1900
traded together with two other Cézannes for one Degas pastel (possibly Lemoisne 1946-49, no. 1335) on 6 January 1900, to Pellerin
with Auguste Pellerin, Paris, 1900-1911
traded together with another Cézanne and one Monet plus an unspecified sum of currency, for a single Cézanne (Rewald 1996, no. 157) on 7 February 1911 to Bernheim-Jeune
with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1911 sold on 10 February to Vollard
with Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1911-12
shipped on March 30 and sold on 8 May 1912 to Cassirer
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1912, sold on 8 May to Rothermundt
Adolph Rothermundt, Dresden (from 1912; probably sold in June 1914 to Perls and Caspari
with Hugo Perls, Berlin, and Georg Caspari, Munich, probably 1914-21
siezed from Caspari in Paris by French government in November 1920, then returned
sold together with one Cézanne on 19 August 1921, to Cassirer
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1921, sold together with same Cézanne on 19 August to Matsukata
(baron) Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe (1921-30; sold to Wada)
Kyuzaemon Wada, Kobe and Osaka (1930-51; sold through Fujikawa Galleries, Osaka, on 26 February 1951 to Wildenstein)
with Wildenstein, New York, 1951, sold on 4 May to Haupt
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt, New York (1951-his death 1963)
Mrs. Enid A. Haupt, New York (1963-83, sold in 1983 to Annenberg
her brother and his wife, Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif. (1983-93; jointly with MMA, 1993-his death 2002)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1993.400.2

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1876-77

Paul Cézanne Lady with a book
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Paul Cézanne Nature morte aux oignons
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