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 886
Nature morte au vase pique-fleurs
c.1905
Alternate titles: Nature morte avec pommes et pêches; Still Life; Still Life with Apples and Peaches; Still Life – Peaches; Stillleben mit Äpfeln und Pfirsichen
Rewald (936): c.1905; Venturi revised: 1900–1905; Rivière: c.1902 (1923) and circa 1900 (1931)
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 9/16 in. (81 x 100.5 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 446, Annotated: circa 1899
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan, 1916.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, as Still Life, hors catalogue, lent by Mrs. Meyer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 17, as Still Life – Peaches, lent by Meyer.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 33, pl. 144. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 35, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens, April 18–June 28, 1998, no. 1, ill. 1 p. 11 and book jacket, as Nature morte avec pommes et pêches.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 148, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 21, ill., p. 163, as Nature morte au vase pique-fleurs, shown in Montclair and Baltimore only. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 75, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
"List of Accessions and Loans, April 1916." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11, no. 5 (1916), p. 121, listed as on loan from Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr.
Watson, Forbes. "At the Galleries." Evening Post (New York), May 6, 1916, ill. p. 24, on loan to the Metropolitan Museum, NY.
"List of Accessions and Loans, October 1923." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 18, no. 11 (November 1923), p. 263, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 184.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 393, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 13.
Gasch, Sebastià. "La tragedia de Cézanne." Meridià (Barcelona), February 18, 1938, ill. p. 4.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1548, p. 61, ill., as Still Life with Apples and Peaches.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 64, ill.
Hyland, Douglas S.K. "Agnes Ernst Meyer: Patron of American Modernism." American Art Journal 12, no. 1 (Winter 1980), pp. 68, 71, fig. 5.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 407, ill.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 180, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 158, 161, 170, 306, fig. 82.
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. 936, ill. vol. 2 and p. 49, ill. col. vol. 1, as Nature morte au vase pique-fleurs.
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 15 (detail).
Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia et al. Sammlung Oskar Reinhart 'Am Römerholz' Winterthur. Basel: Schwabe & Co., AG, 2003, p. 508, ill., as Stillleben mit Äpfeln und Pfirsichen.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 237, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 387; vol. 2, p. 245, as Nature morte au vase pique-fleurs.
Golding, John. "Cézanne, Braque and Pictorial Space." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 266, fig. 9.8, as Still Life with Apples and Peaches.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 226, fig. 1, as Still Life with Apples and Peaches.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 31.
Record last updated February 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte au vase pique-fleurs, c.1905 (FWN 886)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=909 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
