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 826
Le Vase de tulipes
c.1890
Alternate titles: Fleurs et fruits; Flowers and Fruit; The Vase of Tulips; Tulpen; Tulpen und Äpfel; Vase de tulipes; Vase of Tulips
Rewald (719): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (617): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 16 5/8 in. (59.6 x 42.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, hors catalogue, as Tulpen, lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 46, (dated 1880), as Flowers and Fruit.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Exposition de natures mortes par Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, etc., April 21–May 1908, no. 15, (dated 1880), as Fleurs et fruits.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 9, as Fleurs et fruits, lent by Durand-Ruel.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, April 6–October 9, 1932, no. 3, ill., on cover.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 310, ill., (dated c. 1885), lent by Art Institute.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 294, (dated c. 1885), as Flowers and Fruit, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 16, ill., (dated c. 1885), as Flowers and Fruit, lent by Art Institute of Chicago.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, The Flower in Art, October 31–December 1, 1935.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 17, ill., as Flowers and Fruit, lent by Art Institute of Chicago.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museum, San Francisco, Seven Centuries of Painting, December 29, 1939–January 28, 1940, no. 105.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 16, ill. lent by Chicago Institute of Art.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Still Life and Flower Paintings, November 2–December 9, 1945, no. 26.
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Flower Paintings by European Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, May 16–June 25, 1950, no. 1, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 85, ill. lent by Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 21.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 38, ill. lent by Chicago.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 70, ill., as Le Vase de tulipes, 1890-94, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 19. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 45. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, no. 40.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 66, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, possible loan, hors catalogue.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 65, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rich, Daniel Catton. "The Bequest of Mrs. L.L. Coburn." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, no. 6 (November 1932), pp. 70-71, ill. cover, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 617, ill. vol. II, as Vase de tulipes.
"Historic Painting Exhibit Reveals Endless Variety." San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco), January 7, 1940, section D, p. 11, ill., as Flowers and Fruit.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 22 (detail) and cover, as Tulpen und Äpfel, 1890-94.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, cover, pl. 22.
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 72, ill. in color p. 327, as Vase of Tulips.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 83, no. 13.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 29, with comments.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 24.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 41, ill.
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. 719, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase de tulipes.
Nin, Núria. "Memories of Objects, Objects of Memory." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 4, ill. in color.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 135, ill.
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, p. 310, fig. 82b, as The Vase of Tulips.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 342, ill.
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. 103, fig. 3, as The Vase of Tulips.
Muir, Kimberly, Kristi Dahm, Giovanni Verri, Maria Kokkori, and Clara Granzotto. "'A Harmony Parallel to Nature' – Color, Form, and Space in Cezanne's Watercolors and Oil Paintings." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, pp. 54–55, 57, figs. 10, 11 and 14 (details).
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 26.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Vase de tulipes, c.1890 (FWN 826)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=697 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
