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Dear Trix Pryce,

Thank you very much for your enquiry, I have passed your question on to my colleague who is a curator within the Art department, they'll be in touch to advise further.

Kind regards,

Nia
(Digital team)

Please can you tell me when this Cezanne picture was renamed as the Francois Zola Dam.
I have an old copy of the catalogue from the Cezanne in Britain exhibition at the National Gallery in 2006/7.
There the picture is called Mountains in Provence (near L'Estaque)


I would be grateful to know this as I am currently writing a short article for the Friends of the Museum on this painting.

Thank you

Trix Pryce

Dear Astrid,
Thank you for your enquiry and interest in our artwork.
Yes we do have Gwendoline Davies’s receipt. She bought this painting and ‘Provençal Landscape’ from the dealer Bernheim Jeune for £2,750 in February 1918.
Gauguin’s wife Mette sold the painting to Danish collector Edvard Brandes when Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 leaving her with very little money. He tried to buy it back in 1894 but was unsuccessful. Gauguin’s gouache based on this painting is now in the Ny Carslberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Brandes later sold the painting to Baron Denis Cochin, from whom it was purchased by Bernheim Jeune.

Thanks,
Anne

Dr. Anne Pritchard
Uwch Curadur, Celf Hanesyddol / Senior Curator, Historic Art

Hello, I am studying this painting as part of my OU MA in art history....do you have the bill of sale from when Gwendoline Davies bought it along with another Cezanne ? Also wondering where Gauguin's gouache is now ? And who did he sell or give Cezzanne's painting to ?
It is a fantastic work..we are lucky to have it in Wales !
Thankyou..any information much appreciated.

Hi Becky,
Thank you for your comment,
Of our three Cezanne oils two are on loan to an Italian venue until April next year. The remaining work The Francois Zola Dam is on display in our French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Gallery [Gallery 16 on the map].

Morning - could you tell me whether there are any of Cezanne's works currently shown at the museum? I was planning on visiting this weekend sometime :)

Thanks in advance!

Becky

Hi there Catherine,

This painting will be on display in gallery 16 during September. I have checked with our art department and we have no plans to move it.

I hope you enjoy your visit to the museum, and seeing this beautiful painting up close!

All the best,
Sara
Digital Team

Hello ,
Please could you let me know if you have any paintings by Paul Cezanne exhibited atm .I plan to visit Cardiff in September 2015 , and a trip to your wonderful museum is always on the itinery .
Thank You

I bought a print of this wonderful picture on visit over thirty years ago. I will come when it is again on show. It hangs opposite my bed and I look at it every morning. There is always something new to see whether in the colours, the deep structure or the perfect wholeness of the picture. It's a great and moving picture, This morning I came across exactly the quote from Cezanne you use in Alex Danchev's new biography, which he cites as a letter from Cezanne to Pissarro in 1876. An exhibition setting these two great friends side by side (as the painted) would be wonderful but probably has already been done or would be hard to do (I'm only an amateur in such things). Whatever you do in the future with your Cezannes, they will remain a jewel in your great collection and I'll always be grateful I saw this one and bought the print (for 2 pounds I think) all that time ago.

Dear marian berry,
Thank you for your comment, unfortunately this art work is actually being prepared for loan, and it will not be on display again at the National Museum Cardiff until June 2014. Graham Davies, Online Curator.