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Catalogue entry

FWN 756
Cinq pommes
1877–78
Alternate titles: Apples; Five Apples; Les cinq pommes; Pommes
Rewald (334): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1873–77; Venturi (191): 1873–77
Oil on canvas
5 x 10 in. (12.7 x 25.5 cm)
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Maxime Maufra, Paris (Apr. 29, 1896)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Nov. 13, 1907)
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (Dec. 17, 1907);
Leo Stein, Paris and Settignano (1913)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (1921)
Carl Weeks, Des Moines (1926);
Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 26, 1967, no. 20, ill.
Stephen Hahn, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York
Private collection
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Maufra buys.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 5, ill. lent by Weeks.
1947d New York
A. Seligman-Helft Galleries, New York, French Still-Life from Chardin to Cézanne, October 29–November 22, 1947, no. 7, lent by Mr. Carl Weeks.
1961 Iowa City
Department of Art, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Prints from Twenty-Three Iowa Collections, May 9–August 6, 1961, no. 19.
1970–71 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 155, pl. 19 (dated 1873–77), lent by Eugene Thaw. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
1985 New York and traveling
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, Part II, September 3–November 10, 1985, no. 8 of Check List, as Apples. Traveled to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, February 17–April 13, 1985.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 13, ill., as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thaw. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 5, ill.
2008 Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 8, ill. p. 295, as Cinq pommes, lent by Eugene V. Thaw.
2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 168, p. 458, as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 2, ill., p. 144, as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
2011–12 San Francisco and traveling
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 49, cat. 7 (Stein coll.), as Five Apples, 1877-78, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.
2011–12a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 34, ill., as Cinq pommes, 1877-1878, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 62, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 191, ill. vol. II, as Pommes.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 31.
Mellow 1974
Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York: Praeger, 1974, p. 207.
Rewald 1975a
Rewald, John. "Some Entries for a New Catalogue Raisonné of Cézanne's Paintings." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 86, periode 6 (November 1975), pp. 162–63, ill., as Cinq pommes.
Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, pl. 13.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 57, 248, 256, 261, note 34, fig. 35.
Kitschen 1995
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 24.
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. 334, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq pommes.
Baumann 2004
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, ill., as Cinq pommes.
Sachs 2009a
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Kelly: Painting Form through Color." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 458, pl. 168, as Five Apples.
Shiff 2009a
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, ill., p. 458, pl. 168, as Five Apples.
Dachy 2011
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), p. 18, as Les cinq pommes.
Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 395, no. 7, pl. 49, as Five Apples.
Warman 2011
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 88, as Cinq pommes.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
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. 107, fig. 2, as Five Apples.
Aebi and Haddad 2022
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), fig. 9.
Notes

The American artist, Morgan Russell borrowed this painting from the Gertrude and Leo Stein and made a still life based on this work.

When Leo and Gertrude divided their collection in 1914, Leo succeeded in claiming this still life for himself. Gertrude was distraught. According to Alice Toklas, Picasso made a watercolor of a single apple to console her and inscribed it on the verso: Souvenir pour Gertrude and Alice/ Picasso/ Noel 1914. (See D. Aimé-Azan, "Alice Toklas et las collection Gertrude Stein," Jardin des arts, March 1868, pp. 46, 51).

The French painter Maxime Maufra bought the still life from Vollard in April 1896 and seems to have made a faithful copy of it. The whereabouts of that work is unknown.

Cinq pommes, 1877–78 (FWN 756). Morgan Russell, Three Apples, 1910. Museum of Modern Art, NY
Morgan Russell, Three Apples, 1910. Museum of Modern Art, NY
Record last updated January 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq pommes, 1877–78 (FWN 756)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=330 (accessed on April 20, 2024).