Catalogue entry

FWN 860

La Corbeille de pommes

c.1893

Alternate titles: Apfel, Flasche und Kuchen; Corbeille de pommes; Der Apfelkorb; Korb mit Äpfeln; Le panier de pommes; Les pommes; Nature morte; Nature morte: La corbeille de pommes; Pommes; Still Life; Stilleben; Stilleben mit einem Korb voll Äpfeln; Stilleven; The Basket of Apples

Rewald (800): c.1893; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (600): 1890–94; Rivière: 1883; Vollard: 1885

Oil on canvas

25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)

Signed lower left in red-brown: P. Cezanne

The Art Institute of Chicago (The Helen Birch-Bartlett Memorial Collection) (1926.252)

Keywords

Still-life objects
Edibles and Flowers:
- apple(s) / pomme(s) »
- biscuit(s) »
Still-life objects
Dishes and Vessels:
- basket / corbeille »
- bottle(s) / bouteille(s) »
- plate / assiette »
Still-life objects
Miscellaneous:
Interiors
Furnishings:
- table (or wooden surface) »
Technique and Condition:
- signed work »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (June 1, 1904)

Max Linde, Lübeck (June 1, 1904)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (by July 1907)

Jos. Hessel, Paris

Paul Rosenberg, Paris (by 1922)

[Josef Stransky, New York]

Frederick Clay Bartlett, Chicago (by 1925);

The Art Institute of Chicago (1926)

Exhibition History

1895 Paris

Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.

1904 Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Korb mit Äpfeln, [Geschäftsbücher].

1908b Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XI. Jahrgang, Winter 1908/1909, II. Ausstellung, October 15–November 8, 1908, no. 17, as Apfel, Flasche und Kuchen.

1912b Paris

Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no. 3, as Pommes, [lent by Bernheim-Jeune].

1917b Paris

Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Art français du XIXe siècle au profit de l'Association Générale des mutilés de la guerre, June 25–July 13, 1917, no. 5, as Corbeille de pommes, lent by Hessel.

1919 Paris

Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.

1920d Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 28, as Les pommes, lent by Hessel.

1922d Paris

Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 9, as Le panier de pommes, 1885, lent by Jos. Hessel.

1924a Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.

1925 Boston

Boston Art Club, Boston, Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 1925.

1925 Minneapolis

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 1925.

1929 Cambridge, Mass.

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 6, pl. XXIV, as La Corbeille de pommes, lent by Chicago.

1933b Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 305, (dated c. 1885), lent by Art Institute.

1934 Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 290, (dated c. 1885), as The Basket of Apples, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.

1934 Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 17, (dated c. 1885), as The Basket of Apples, lent by Art Institute of Chicago.

1946 Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from The Birch Bartlett Collection, 1946, no number, ill.

1952 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 54, ill. lent by Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.

1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 25, shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.

2006–07 New York and traveling

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 44, fig. 39, pp. 37, 342–43, as La Corbeille de pommes. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.

2008 Fort Worth

Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 67, ill.

2012–13 Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 103, ill.

2014a Madrid

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, possible loan, hors catalogue.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 56, ill. Reflection: "The Breaking Point" by Luc Tuymans, p. 129. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Natanson 1895

Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895).

Bernard 1908a

Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 521, ill.

Meier-Graefe 1910

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 79.

Hind 1911

Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 74, as Still Life.

Lawton 1911

Lawton, Frederick. "Paul Cézanne." Art Journal, no. 2 (February 1911), p. 57, ill.

Weisbach 1911

Weisbach, Werner. Impressionismus: Ein Problem der Malerei in der Antike und Neuzeit ,vol. II. Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911, ill. p. 162, as Stilleben.

Alexandre 1912a

Alexandre, Arsène. "Exposition d'art moderne à l'Hôtel de la revue 'Les Arts.'" Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions, no. 128 (August 1912), ill. p. VII, no. 6, as Pommes.

Borgmeyer 1913

Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 230, ill., as Still Life, Collection Hessel.

Meier-Graefe 1913

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 76.

New York Times 1913

"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, ill. p. 15, as Still Life, Hessel collection.

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 33, as La Corbeille de pommes.

Cortissoz 1917

Cortissoz, Royal. "Cézanne at His Best, and What That Best is Worth." New York Tribune, March 4, 1917, ill. p. 3.

Stuart 1917

Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 335, ill., as Still Life, "Collection Joseph Hessel".

Meier-Graefe 1918a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 153.

Coquiot 1919

Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, p. 246 (listed), as La Corbeille de pommes.

Vollard 1921

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 120, as Stilleben, dated circa 1885.

Janneau 1922

Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, as Le panier de pommes.

Meier-Graefe 1922

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 185.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 211, listed, erroneously listed as Pellerin collection.

Denis 1924

Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 41, as Nature morte, (Coll. Hessel).

Art Institute of Chicago 1926

"Cézanne, Rousseau Picasso." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago vol. 20, no. 5 (1926), pp. 62–63, ill. on cover.

Watson 1926c

Watson, Forbes. "A Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection." The Arts 9 (June 1926), p. 304, ill.

Zabel 1928

Zabel, Morton Dauwen. "An American Gallery of Modern Painting." Art and Archaeology 26 (December 1928), pp. 232–33, ill. p. 227.

Art Institute of Chicago 1929

Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch-Bartlett Memorial Collection, 2nd ed. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929, pp. 8–9, ill.

Bertram 1929

Bertram, Anthony. Cézanne. London: Studio, 1929, pl. 22.

Bulliet 1930

Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art. New York: Covici, 1930, p. 56, ill.

Olmenhove 1935

Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill p. 7 (no.10), as Stilleven, 1877.

Larguier 1936

Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 25, ill.

D'Ors 1936a

Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, fig. 2.

D'Ors 1936b

Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), p. 363, fig. 2, as Nature morte: La corbeille de pommes.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 600, ill. vol. II, as La Corbeille de pommes.

Goldwater 1938

Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 141, ill.

Lecuyer 1939

Lecuyer, Raymond. "Triomphe 1939 de Paul Cézanne." Le Figaro, supplément littéraire, Janvier 21, 1939, ill. p. 7, as Nature morte, erroneously listed as Pellerin collection.

Jewell 1944a

Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 21, ill.

Loran 1952

Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), fig. 3, p. 7.

Storey 1952

Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 194, ill. (detail).

Schapiro 1952a

Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 90–91, ill.

Schapiro 1952b

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, p. 17.

Hofmann 1953

Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 18, as Stilleben mit einem Korb voll Äpfeln, 1890-94.

Rousseau 1953

Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 18.

Hamilton 1956

Hamilton, George Heard. "Cézanne, Bergson and the Image of Time." College Art Journal 16, no. 1 (Fall 1956), p. 8, ill.

Erpel 1958

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 27.

Art Institute of Chicago 1961

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 72, as The Basket of Apples.

Levey 1962

Levey, Michael. A Concise History of Paintings: From Giotto to Cézanne. London: Praeger, 1962, fig. 549.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 88.

Longaker 1970

Longaker, Jon D. Art, Style & History: A Selective Survey of Art. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1970, pp. 223–24, pl. 12.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 30, with comments.

Kelder 1980

Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, pp. 408-09, ill.

Müller 1982

Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 32.

Brettell 1986

Brettell, Richard. "The Bartletts and the 'Grande Jatte:' Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (1986), no. 1 of checklist, ill.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 125, ill. b/w.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 190, ill.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 183, ill.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 143, fig. 123.

Baron and Bonafoux 1993

Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 33, ill.

Rewald 1996

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. 800, ill. vol. 2, as La Corbeille de pommes.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 282, fig. 175.

Schmidt 2004a

Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 52.

Jensen 2006

Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, fig.39, as The Basket of Apples.

Buschhoff 2007

Buschhoff, Anne. "Paula Modersoh-Becker und Paris. Fünf Vorbemerkungen; Lanschaften; Figurenbilder; Stillleben." In Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso. Munich: Hirmer, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 193-194, fig. 2, as Der Apfelkorb, 1890-94.

Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b

Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 516, ill.

Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013c

"Kollektion Lovis Corinth: Ausstellung 'Stilleben': 15. Oktober bis 10. November 1908." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910 vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 53, ill.

Eiling 2017

Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 19.

Cezanne 2021

Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 89.

Clark 2022

Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 1.

Muir et al 2022

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, p. 51, fig. 6 (detail).

Nagaï 2022a

Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 28.

Smith 2023

Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 1.

Record last updated February 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Corbeille de pommes, c.1893 (FWN 860)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=776 (accessed on April 18, 2024).