The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Tony Querrec; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
FWN 1925
Les Pots de fleurs
c.1885
Alternate titles: Flower-Pots - Les pots de fleurs; Les géraniums (Les pots de fleurs); Les pots de géranium; Les pots de géraniums; Pots de fleurs; Pots de géraniums; The Flower Pots; Tiestos
Rewald (W194); Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (952): 1883–87
Graphite, gouache, and watercolor on yellowed paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. (23.5 x 30.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Société des peintres-graveurs français, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, XXe exposition including Rétrospectives Paul Cézanne et P.-A. Renoir, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, lithographies, March 24–April 15, 1933, no. 18, as Le[s] pot[s] de fleurs.
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, Dessins français du Musée du Louvre, March 11–May 17, 1948, no. 117, as Les Pots de fleurs.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Le dessin français: de Fouquet à Cézanne, November–December 1949, no. 207, as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, December 25, 1949–February 6, 1950 (Tekeningen van Franse meesters: van Fouquet tot Cézanne); Musée national de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, February–March 1950.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 35, as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-87, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 69, as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 56, ill., as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887.
Musée Eugene Delacroix, Paris, Delacroix et les peintres de la nature (de Géricault à Renoir), June 24–December 20, 1975, as Pots de géraniums.
Musée national d'Art Moderne, Paris, Francis Ponge: manuscrits, livres, peintures, February 25–April 04, 1977, catalogue entry p. 78, as Les pots de géranium.
Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France, Dessins du Musée du Louvre d’Ingres à Vuillard, September 1979–January 1980, no. 8, ill. in b/w, as Les Pots de fleurs.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 57, ill., as Tiestos, 1883-1887, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Peindre dans la lumière de la Méditerranée, July–September 1987, no. 62, ill. in color, as Les géraniums (Les pots de fleurs). Traveled to: Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, October–November 1987.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 100, ill. in color, p. 273, as Les Pots de fleurs, c. 1885, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 28, ill. p. 51, as Les Pots de fleurs, around 1885, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 21, ill., as Les Pots de fleurs, c. 1883-1887, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Les archives de rêve. Dessins du musée d'Orsay – Carte blanche à Werner Spies, March 25–June 30, 2014, p. 335 and 421, ill., as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Albertina, Vienna, January 30–May 3, 2015 (Archiv der Träume. Meisterwerke aus dem Musée d'Orsay).
Grand Palais, Paris, Jardin, March 3–July 24, 2017, no. 78, ill., as Les Pots de fleurs, c. 1883-1887.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Impressionists on Paper, Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, November 25, 2023–March 10, 2024, no. 32, ill.
Published References
Paul Vitry, Carle Dreyfus, Paul Leprieur... [et al.]. Catalogue de la Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Musée national du Louvre, 1922, no. 213, as Les Pots de fleurs.
Schwabacher, Sascha. "Die Impressionisten der Sammlung Camondo im Louvre." Der Cicerone 19, no. 12 (1927), p. 376.
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 2.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 952, ill. vol. II, as Les Pots de fleurs.
Adhémar, Hélène et al. Catalogue des peintures et sculptures exposées au Musée de l’Impressionnisme (Jeu de Paume des Tuileries): les impressionnistes, leurs précurseurs et leurs contemporains. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1947, p. 27, no. 43, as Pots de fleurs.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 93, as Flower-Pots - Les pots de fleurs, 1883-87, Louvre, Paris.
Leymarie, Jean. Dessins impressionistes De Manet à Renoir. Geneva: Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1969, p. 96, ill. 1883-87.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Cézanne: quinze aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Daniel Jacomet, 1971, pl. 4, as Les pots de géraniums, c. 1883-87.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, ill. on reverse of pl. 16.
Monnier, G. "The Late Watercolors." In Cézanne: The Late Work, Rubin, William, ed. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 114, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 194, ill.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, frontispiece.
Cachin, Françoise and Laure Buhart. "Cézanne: 'un sujet intimidant …'" Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 6.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 611, no. 1460, ill. in color p. 610, as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887.
Cogeval, Guy (ed.), Y. Badetz, C. Bernardi, J. Bolloch ... Le musée d'Orsay à 360 degrés. Paris: Skira Flammarion, 2013, p. 167, ill. in color, as Les Pots de fleurs, c. 1883-1887.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 285, fig. 202.
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. 223, fig. 1, as The Flower Pots.
Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Pots de fleurs, c.1885 (FWN 1925)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1174 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
