The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 812
Pot de primevères et fruits
1888–90
Alternate titles: Fleurs et fruits; Flowers and Fruit; Nature morte; Nature morte or Poires et géraniums; Poires et géranium rose; Pot de fleurs et fruits; Pot de fleurs et poires; Pot of Flowers and Pears; Pot of Primeroses and Fruit; Still life
Rewald (639): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1890–93; Venturi (623): 1890–94; Vollard: c.1888–90 and circa 1888 (Burlington); Gowing: c.1887 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
17 11/16 x 21 1/4 in. (45 x 54 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no number, Hoogendijk collection.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 35, as Nature morte, probably lent by Hessel.
Knoedler Galleries, London, Nineteenth Century French Painters, July ?–31, 1926, no. 21, as Nature morte.
De Hauke & Co, New York, The Classics of Modern Painting, April 12–23, 1927, no number.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 12, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1888.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 40, as Pot de fleurs et poires, c. 1887, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 10, pl. 44.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 9.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 10. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 25, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 9, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 11, ill., as Pot de primevères et fruits.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 30, as Pot of Flowers and Pears, c. 1888-90.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 30, ill., as Pot of Flowers and Pears (size: 46 x 56 cm).
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 5, ill., pp. 88–89 (dated c. 1888–90), as Pot de primevères et fruits.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 39, ill., as Pot de fleurs et fruits, c. 1888-1890.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 5, ill. c. 1888–90.
Published References
Riemsdijk, Barthold Willem Floris van. Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, Pastels, Framed Drawings etc. at the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1910, p. 425, no. 688M, as Still life.
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadrés, etc. du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner et Van Santen, 1911, p. 100, no. 688M, as Nature morte.
Bye, Arthur Edwin. Pots and Pans or Studies in Still Life Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921, p. 139, ill. opp. p. 134.
Anonymous. "L'exposition Cézanne." L'Action française (Paris) (June 22, 1926), p. 2, as Poires et géranium rose.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 7, no. 12 (June 15, 1926), ill. p. 181, as Poires et géranium rose.
Manson, James Bolivar. "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Courtauld." Creative Art 4 (April 1929), p. 257, ill.
Jamot, Paul, and Percy Moore Turner. Collection de tableaux français, faite à Londres, 20 Portman Square, par Samuel et Elizabeth Courtauld. London: [privately published], 1934, no. 25.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 623, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs et fruits.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), pp. 176, 179, 182, 183, fig. 3.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 31.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 43, ill.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 42.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 43.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 639, ill. vol. 2, as Pot de primevères et fruits.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 209, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 278; vol. 2, p. 181, as Pot de primevères et fruits.
Shiff, Richard. "Morality, Materiality, Apples." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 187, fig. 15, as Pot of Primeroses and Fruit.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 2, as Pot of Primeroses and Fruit.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 36, ill., as Nature morte or Poires et géraniums.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 13.
Record last updated May 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pot de primevères et fruits, 1888–90 (FWN 812)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=620 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
