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Catalogue entry

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)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (RF4032)

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson);
Chocquet Collection,Galerie G. Petit, Paris, France, July 1–4, 1899, hors catalogue
Count Isaac de Camondo, Paris (bought Dec. 5, 1895; bequeathed to the Louvre in 1908);
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1911, Bequest of Isaac de Camondo; exhibited from 1914 on);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1933c Paris
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.
1948 Bern
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, Dessins français du Musée du Louvre, March 11–May 17, 1948, no. 117, as Les Pots de fleurs.
1949–50 Brussels and traveling
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.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
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.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 69, as Les Pots de fleurs, 1883-1887, lent by Musée du Louvre.
1974b Paris
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.
1975 Paris
Musée Eugene Delacroix, Paris, Delacroix et les peintres de la nature (de Géricault à Renoir), June 24–December 20, 1975, as Pots de géraniums.
1977b Paris
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.
1979–1980 Bayonne
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.
1984 Madrid
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.
1987 Jerusalem and traveling
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.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2000 Aix-en-Provence
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.
2011–12 Milan
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.
2014–15a Paris and traveling
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).
2017d Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Jardin, March 3–July 24, 2017, no. 78, ill., as Les Pots de fleurs, c. 1883-1887.
2023–24 London
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Impressionists on Paper, Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, November 25, 2023–March 10, 2024, no. 32, ill.
Published References
Vitry et al. 1922
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 1927
Schwabacher, Sascha. "Die Impressionisten der Sammlung Camondo im Louvre." Der Cicerone 19, no. 12 (1927), p. 376.
Provence 1934
Provence, Marcel. L'Année cézannienne, 1933. Aix-en-Provence: Editions du Feu, 1934.
Album Quatre Chemins 1936b
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 2.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 952, ill. vol. II, as Les Pots de fleurs.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 100.
Nicodemi 1944
Nicodemi, Giogio. Cézanne: 76 Disegni. Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 42, ill.
Adhémar et al. 1947
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 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 93, as Flower-Pots - Les pots de fleurs, 1883-87, Louvre, Paris.
Leymarie 1969
Leymarie, Jean. Dessins impressionistes De Manet à Renoir. Geneva: Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1969, p. 96, ill. 1883-87.
Hoog 1971
Hoog, Michel. L'Univers de Cézanne. Paris: Henri Scrépel, 1971, p. 47.
Sérullaz 1971
Sérullaz, Maurice. Cézanne: quinze aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Daniel Jacomet, 1971, pl. 4, as Les pots de géraniums, c. 1883-87.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, ill. on reverse of pl. 16.
Monnier 1977
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.
Shone 1979
Shone, Richard. The Post-Impressionists. New York: Gallery Books, 1979, p. 110, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 194, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 105, ill.
Baron and Bonafoux 1993
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, frontispiece.
Cachin and Buhart 1995b
Cachin, Françoise and Laure Buhart. "Cézanne: 'un sujet intimidant …'" Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 6.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 27, ill.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 27, ill.
Prat 2011
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 2013
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 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 285, fig. 202.
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. 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 April 30, 2024).